RECORD NO.17

Through the optical axis of a lens as transparent as a cat’s eye in the extremely handy camera I’m Carrying, I capture with just the slightest stroke of my fingertip how I call in the world, or the world calls me in, and in this respect, I continue to make my rounds in the maze of city streets and humans. Being a street snap photographer who witnesses scenes, walks and seeks intuitively, also makes me feel a possible connection to the hardboiled novel. That’s because I frequently get lost and all fired up out there in the streets."If you want anything, just whistle."-_ Humphrey BogartThis issue of Record features photographs taken around the middle of July in the streets of Sapporo and Ishikari-Kako.-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.