Record No. 32
Daido Moriyama's Record No. 32 is one installment in a decades-long serial project, a photographer's working notebook issued to the public roughly twice a year rather than a single, discrete book.
Like the rest of the Record (Kiroku) series, this issue collects Moriyama's recent black-and-white street photographs, printed full-bleed throughout with no accompanying essay to direct the reading. The images move between Tokyo's streets, signage, bodies, and stray detail in the grainy, high-contrast, often blurred style Moriyama has used since the 1960s. Published by Akio Nagasawa in Tokyo, the volume is a softcover issued without a dust jacket, designed by Rie Shimoda and printed in Japan.
Moriyama began Record in 1972 as a self-published outlet outside the gallery and museum system, let it lapse, then restarted it in the mid-2000s as an ongoing numbered series that now runs past thirty issues. Associated early in his career with the short-lived Provoke journal and its rejection of polished documentary style, Moriyama has used Record to keep that raw, immediate working method continuously in print alongside his more widely distributed monographs.
