Ango (SIGNED)

Daido Moriyama
Ango (SIGNED)

Photographs: Daido Moriyama

Publisher: Bookshop M

188 pages

Pictures: 57

Year: 2017

Comments: Hardcover in a carboard slipcase, 240 x 165 mm. First edition, 2017. Black & white photographs. In very god condition other than a small stain on the back of the slipcase. Text in english. Copy signed by Daido Moriyama.

“In the old times, before the capital changed from Kyoto to Tokyo, cherry trees were considered a frightful sight. No one thought them a sign of beauty. […] Without a trace of human life beneath it, a cherry in full bloom becomes a fearful sight.”

The fifth instalment of Match & Company’s “Japanese Photography x Contemporary Literature” series.
In “Daido Moriyama: Ango, Daido Moriyama’s frightening photographs of cherry trees are set to Ango Sakaguchi’s famous short-story “In the Forest, Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom”.

The “demonic beauty of the cherry blossoms” of Moriyama and Sakaguchi turn into a jet-black photobook of bottomless loneliness, emptiness and dangerous seduction.