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. 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.