First edition ofHawaii by Daido Moriyama (2007)
First impression
About the unsigned copy
Large format paperback innew condition
No markings to book
Comes with a dust jacket and a PVC jacket
About the signed copy
Large format paperback in fine condition
Signed by Daido Moriyama in both Mandarin and English
Some shelf wear to PVC jacket
Published by Nazraeli Press
About
Taken in between the periods of July 2004 and January 2007, MoriyamasHawaiicontains a collection of 291 images, captured in the same iconic black and white, grainy visual style in which Moriyama has become famous for. Bound within the 432 pages of this photobook Moriyama presents a photographic narrative of an islands landscape viewed from both its natural land formations and its inhabitants. Here the viewers known preconceptions of the island paradise of Hawaii are brushed aside, not entirely wiped clean by Moriyamas staunch approach in recording the world as he sees it, the ideals and exotisized imagery of Hawaii as the imagined island as paradise become exploited to establish a stereotyped sense of place. The viewer is no longer remote, the distance has been removed and we are no longer detached from the immediate westernized culture within our everyday.
