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MORIYAMA, Daido. 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). Provenance : Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription to:) -- Koji Taki.
MORIYAMA, Daido. 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). Provenance : Daido Moriyama (presentation inscription to:) -- Koji Taki. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY MORIYAMA TO PROVOKE CO-FOUNDER KOJI TAKI: A RARE AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY. Moriyama remarked: 'when I was involved with Provoke, I used the copy machine a lot and experimented a lot. I used the images the way they came out of the machine. I did a lot of that stuff at Taki's place' (quoted in Kaneko & Vartanian). Bye Bye Photography is 'one of the most extreme photobooks ever published', and '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 in poor condition, and rarely with an early inscription. 101 Books , pp.218-20; Auer & Auer 543; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks , p.29; The Open Book , pp.290-91; The Photobook , vol. I, pp.298-99.