TKY by Daido Moriyama (2011)

Medium format softcover in fine condition. Minor shelf wear, bump to top right hand corner of cover (see first picture) and at the bottom of back cover (see last picture). Silkscreen printed cover with colour laser printed sheets. Staple bound.

Published as part of Printing Show at Aperture Gallery, New York, November 2011. 

23.3 x 28.5 cm

20 Gatefold Pages

Signed by Daido Moriyama and numbered in a limited edition of 500 copies.

About

“Printing Show” was an adaptation of Daido Moriyama's 1974 performance of the same name. Held inside the Aperture Foundation (November 2011) and inside the Tate Modern (October 2012), participants edited and sequenced their own limited-edition photobooks using Moriyama’s images. Each copy of then signed by the photographer. The volume produced in the 2011 edition was titled TKY. The volume of the 2012 was titled MENU. 

In 1974, Moriyama held an exhibition of his work shot while in New York in 1971. In that exhibition titled "Printing Show," instead of framed prints mounted on the gallery walls, visitors instead saw the photographer stationed at a photocopy machine, duplicating his prints. The output was then staple-bound with a silkscreened cover. Visitors were allowed to select one of two cover options. The interior pages were shuffled each time by the photographer. The resulting photo-book was called *Another Country in New York*.

To commemorate Goliga's publication of ACCIDENT, on November 4th & 5th, 2011, Goliga organised a re-staging of this legendary 1974 performance at New York's Aperture Gallery. The same process of generating a photo-book using silkscreening and photocopying was incorporated into this performance. However, in the 2011 re-staging of "Printing Show," visitors were allow to select and sequence twenty sheets from a menu of fifty-four options, thus creating their own copy of the photo-book. Each edit was when executed before the visitors within the gallery space. The resulting photobook was TKY and limited to an edition of 500 copies. Each copy was numbered and signed by the photographer.