Kagero and Colors

First edition of Kagero and Colors by Daido Moriyama (2007)

First impression 

Large format hardback in near fine condition

Signed by Doido Moriyama to front end page

Please note that are some soft bumps to top corners of both front and back cover that have slightly affected the top corner of the pages

Some minor wear to cover

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

Published by Powershovel Books

About

This gorgeous, text-free, oversized collection of full-bleed color and black-and-white photographs compiles a host of previously unseen color nudes together with the collection that formed Daido Moriyama’s extremely rare fourth solo book, Kagerou, published in 1972. Here, Moriyama captures bondage and nudity with a self-described “samurai tenderness”–a mood, an intimacy and yet also a distance–as if the artist might have snapped the photographs against his will. The stagings are not careful. They are rushed, immediate and mysteriously visceral. Even the knots seem to have been hastily tied. Each of the 60 photographs gathered here suggests that something has happened or something will happen–something furious, resonant or highly anticipated. There are no models smiling, no boasts of romantic conquest, rarely even a face, and certainly no hint of playfulness. Rather, this is a collection of desires, of mothers, sisters and lovers.