Daido Moriyama, one of Japan's most internationally acclaimed photographers, has reinterpreted and rearranged his 2002 book "Shinjuku.
The collage of all the pages of "Shinjuku" was used as material for "Shinjuku (Collage)," a collection of 128 works by Shohei Yoshida, who creates and exhibits his works as an artist while working as an art director and designer of books and catalogs.
Yoshida began creating collage works using Daido Moriyama's photo books as material when he received an offer to create a tabloid poster for the supplemental tabloid poster to the "Special Issue on Photography Made with Daido Moriyama" issue of BRUTUS magazine.
At that time, Yoshida chose "Shinjuku," one of Moriyama's best-known photo books, as the material for his collage, and continued to make it his personal life's work.
The entire book was cut up and dismantled as material, and boldly reconstructed into "Shinjuku ( Collage )," a group of works.
The unique view of the world that differs from the original photograph has received praise from Mr. Moriyama himself.
I've already taken it out of my hands with Yoshida's concept.
I look forward to wandering through the landscape of another Shinjuku ." --Daido Moriyama
This book will be published under the newly launched NUMABOOKS label, a label for books and ideas led by book coordinator and creative director Shintaro Uchinuma.
In conjunction with the release of the book, the first exhibition of Yoshida's work will be held at the "B Gallery" of BEAMS Japan in Shinjuku. Selected works from the 128 pieces in "Shinjuku ( Collage )" will be exhibited and sold. There will also be a talk event next month in which Daido Moriyama will participate. For more details, please contact the following.
Text_Ryo Komuta
Shinjuku ( Collage )
Author/Collage: Shohei Yoshida
Photo: Daido Moriyama, "Shinjuku," ( Monday , 2002, first edition )
Editing/Publishing: NUMABOOKS
Book design: Shohei Yoshida (, white solid )
Specifications: w182 x h247mm / 256p serial numbered, in sleeve case
Price: 5,800 yen + tax
Yoshida Shohei Exhibition "Shinjuku ( Collage )
Period: May 19, 2017 ( Fri )~ June 4, 2017 ( Sun )
Time: 11:00 - 20:00 00( Open throughout the exhibition period )
Location: B Gallery ( BEAMS JAPAN 5F)
Address: 3-32-6 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo TEL: 03-5368-7309
Artist Talk
Date and Time: June 3, 2017 ( Sat ) 18:00~19:30
Venue: B Gallery ( BEAMS JAPAN 5F)
Guests: Daido Moriyama ( photographer ) , Nobuhiro Sugie ( deputy editor-in-chief of "BRUTUS" )
Reservation capacity: First 30 people
*Reservations can be made byB Galleryto
Shohei Yoshida
Born in 1985 in Hiroshima , Japan. Art director and graphic designer . After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School, worked at the design office "Nakamura Graph" before going independent as "White Solid" in 2016. . His main activities include catalog and book design and art direction for exhibition visuals. In 2016, he participated in the "BRUTUS" ( Magazine House ) No.818 "Photography Special with Daido Moriyama" and started to create collage works using Daido Moriyama's photo books as materials. Moriyama's photo books as materials for his collage works. His collections include "KASABUTA" (WALL , 2013 ).
Daido Moriyama
Born in Osaka in 1938, he began his career as a freelance photographer in 1964, winning the New Photographer Award of the Japan Photography Critics Society in 1967 for his "Nippon Gekijo" series, etc. From 1968 to 1970, he participated in the photography coterie magazine "Provogue" where his high contrast and coarse grained style of photography was described as "Are, Blur, Bokeh. His high-contrast and coarse-grained style has been described as "shaky, blurred, and blurring," and has had an impact on the world of photography. In recent years, he has held large-scale exhibitions in Japan and abroad, and is highly acclaimed worldwide. His numerous photo collections include "Shinjuku" (( 2002, )), "Monochrome" and "Color" (( 2012, )), and "Dogs and Net Tights" (( 2015, )).
