Moriyama – Record 59

In the year 2025, Daido Moriyama will turn 87. The year also marks the nineteenth year since relaunching his own photo magazine, ‘Record’. It was in a café on top of a building in the middle of Shinjuku (long since gone) where Moriyama received a request from Akio Nagasawa, the current publisher, to relaunch the handmade and privately pressed zine that had failed and folded after the fifth issue, more than 30 years ago. So, for the next two decades, most of the snapshots taken during the second half of the photographer’s career, even pictures from various travels and shoots abroad, ended up being published in ‘Record’. Everything is a memory, a souvenir, a record in itself.

21 x 28 cm