Moriyama – Record 53

In this instalment, Daido Moriyama reminisces about how the completely overwhelming experience of browsing through the photobook ‘New York’ (1956) inspired him to dedicate his life and work to photography. It was the first book published by William Klein (1926–2022), whom Moriyama would later meet and befriend. He remembers their last encounter in Ginza especially fondly, and mourns Klein’s passing as he writes, “For myself, and for photography at large, the photographer William Klein has now turned into a polar star that will shine eternally.”