MORIYAMA, Daido (b.1938). Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting).
MORIYAMA, Daido (b.1938). Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting).

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MORIYAMA, Daido (b.1938). Shashin yo sayonara. [Bye Bye Photography.] Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. Tall 8° (230 x 185mm). 137 double-page photographs. (Light spotting in some text leaves not affecting the images.) Original printed wrappers, original dust-jacket (light wear and light soiling, light spotting).

FIRST EDITION OF 'ONE OF THE MOST EXTREME PHOTOBOOKS EVER PUBLISHED', comprising 'a brilliant barrage of stream of consciousness imagery; Moriyama's 'willingness to be led to the edge of photography's coherence is the photographic equivalent of Surrealist automatic writing by a camera that almost has a mind of its own' (The Photobook). A very good copy of a book often found inpoor condition. 101 Books, pp. 218-20; Auer, p. 543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, p. 29; The Open Book, pp. 290-91; The Photobook, vol. I, pp. 298-99.

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