DAIDO MORIYAMA / Imitations

Daido Moriyama
Imitations, 1995
Hardcover with original glassine dust jacket, unpaginated 
27.3 x 21.6 cm
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good original glassine jacket. Light creasing and wear to the fragile glassine, a small spot to the rear jacket, otherwise an exceptionally clean copy.

Published on the occasion of Daido Moriyama's 1995 exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery, Imitation is one of the photographer's most elusive publications. Produced in a numbered edition of 500 copies and designed by Issay Kitagawa, the book brings together forty-three black-and-white photographs that explore repetition, reproduction and the instability of the photographic image. Long out of print and increasingly difficult to source, Imitation remains an important publication from a pivotal period in Moriyama's career.