Japan, a Photo Theater II

First Edition, 1978. 120 pages. 

Book measures 8.5 x 8 inches. First Printing. Navy paper-covered boards in dust jacket. B&W full page bleed photographs throughout. Near Fine in solid binding. Dust jacket shows some sun fading to spine, otherwise no clean with no chips or tears. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

From the text at the back of the book, Shoji Yamagishi writes: "In his first exhibit "Japan, a Photo Theater I", Moriyama recorded the lives and expressions of traveling actors, as the title implies. In this book, however, all photographs were taken in Tokyo, In these he takes objects existing in the world such as posters, magazines, mannekins, etc, whcih other people see as mass media, and places them on his own stage as though they were his own objects. When we look at these photographs, in other words, the reflection of his soul, we are made to notice what exactly we are looking at in daily life."