Daido Moriyama's legendary photo book "Daido hysteric no.4" is remastered! Don't miss this historical crossroads of Harajuku culture since the 1990s.

Silkscreen on canvas. 110 x 165 cm.
©Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Daido Moriyama's legendary photo book "Daido hysteric no.4" was published by HYSTERIC GLAMOUR in 1993 .

It is probably the pioneer of the crossover between fashion and art, and a cornerstone item of the collaborative culture that has symbolized Harajuku since the 1990s.

Daido hysteric no. 4 Remastered Edition.

DAIDO HYSTERIC," a new project by Gallery COMMON, which has been leading the recent art scene with a series of highly sensitive curations, is also expected to be a hot topic.

Gallery COMMON

Photo by Yosuke Torii. Courtesy of Gallery COMMON.

In addition to the photographs from "Daido hysteric no. 4," the exhibition will feature 48 gelatin silver prints and 9 silkscreen canvases, including previously unseen photographs from the same period selected by the artist from his archives for this exhibition.

In addition, a remastered edition of "Daido hysteric no.4" will be produced in collaboration with Akio Nagasawa Publishing. . A limited edition of 900 copies of this precious book, which was originally released in a limited edition of 300 copies at the time, will be revived. . 50 of these copies will be published as a special collector's edition with the original gelatin silver prints.

In addition, the "Hysteric Glamour Shibuya Store" will simultaneously hold an exhibition of silkscreen prints from a 1993 collaboration between Daido Moriyama and "Hysteric Glamour.

Daido hysteric no. 4 Remastered Edition.

Incidentally, the decision to produce "Daido hysteric no.4" was based on the "hysteric" series, which had been published in an omnibus format with several photographers, and Moriyama jokingly said, "I would like to participate in this project if you let me publish the entire 400 pages of one book. Moriyama said jokingly, "I would like to participate in this project if you let me publish the entire 400 pages of each book.

Moriyama spent the next year and a half photographing the city, and this photo book was quietly released in a limited edition of 300 copies at the same time as the "Daido Moriyama Installation" exhibition held in 1993 at On Sundays at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Shibuya .

Later, when people learned of the existence of this "Daidohystericno.4", it had already become a rare and hard-to-find item.

This is the first exhibition and sale of the remastered edition of a collection of photographs by the artist, a valuable publication that tells the story of Harajuku's cultural transition, and is important to the artist as well.