DAIDO SLIDE Daido Moriyama

This volume was born from the discovery of a collection of slide films, twenty-five years after they were used for the landmark touring exhibition "Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog," which traveled to major museums across the U.S. and Europe from 1999 to 2001. Triggered by this find at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)—the exhibition’s starting point—book designer Satoshi Machiguchi has crafted a new way to re-trace Moriyama's work.

The "slide film" featured here refers to 35mm reversal film, cut and mounted frame-by-frame for projection onto large screens. This book contains 120 black-and-white slides—reproductions of his own past works taken up to 1991—selected by Moriyama himself. In addition to the visual plates, the book features reminiscences from four world-class curators from institutions such as Tate (UK) and the Fondation Cartier (Paris), who reflect on their first encounters with Moriyama, accompanied by Moriyama's own reflections on those episodes. As the main text is in English, a Japanese translation booklet is included for the domestic release.

The cover design features two variations of the iconic 1971 work Stray Dog, taken near a U.S. military base in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture. One version is the original, while the other is horizontally flipped. This deliberate design highlights the historical reality that two versions—printed from the front and back of the negative—have coexisted as variations as the work gained worldwide fame.