Daidō Moriyama
Shinjuku
Poster, 2002
Getsuyosha
£30
A poster to accompany one of Daidō Moriyama’s most hard-to-find books, Shinjuku, which documented the inhabitants of the seedy Tokyo neighborhood. The poster includes iconic imagery from the book - a close-up of a woman’s face, heavily caked in makeup, as well as shots of Tokyo’s back streets at night. The reverse of the poster includes text in both Japanese and English from Moriyama, describing his relationship to the district over fourty years. He reflects on the town’s unique nature, that “the monster called Shinjuku has no fixed points and its time is not clear”, and explains his reasoning for returning over the years to photograph Shinjuku, writing how he was attracted to its nature as a “Pandora’s Box filled with…modern mythology”.
Condition: Very good
Poster, 36.5 × 50cm