RECORD NO.23

The “WILLIAM KLEIN + DAIDO MORIYAMA” exhibition that was held in October last year at London’s Tate Modern on the River Thames was a very special event and one lucky occasion in the fifty-odd years of my photographing life.That’s because my encounter with William Klein’s book “NEW YORK” back when I was 22 and still loitering around at the doorstep to the world of photography was a truly defining moment. Our exhibition opened on October 10, which happens to be my birthday. That night, a friend from Paris had set up a birthday dinner for me in a restaurant in Waterloo. When Mr. Klein, holding a glass in his large hand, shouted “congratulations”, that caused in me a sort of impression I can hardly describe. I had a fabulous time, somehow feeling lucky to have met William Klein, and at the same time, feeling glad about having carried on with my own photographic work.-DAIDO MORIYAMADaidō Moriyama (Moriyama Daidō, born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Daidō Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, on "Nippon gekijō shashinchō" Though not exclusively, Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast, grainy, black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, often shot from odd angles. Moriyama's photography has been influenced by Seiryū Inoue, Shōmei Tōmatsu, William Klein, Andy Warhol, Eikoh Hosoe, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, the dramatist Shūji Terayama, and Jack Kerouac's "On the Road".Plexus Co.,Ltd.(Tokyo, Japan) proudly presents Daido Moriyama's lifework series "RECORD" in e-Book for the first time distributing in worldwide scale.