Mirage (Signed)

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Mirage is the fourth of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama's limited-edition publications with MMM. For this volume, Moriyama (born 1938) unearthed a selection of previously unpu blished color slides from the 1970s. The slides have faded over the past four decades, and this volume reproduces them in their present fragile beauty. The works consist of several bondage photographs made on commission, and images shot for Japanese Playboy. Editor Hisako Motoo writes in his afterword: "… after several decades film takes on mildewy discolorations until we're peering at scenes through a blur of frosted glass. As if the crisp coating of reality had worn away over time, misting into hazy mirages of memory." This beautiful, slipcased hardcover volume features a tip-on front-cover image and is published in a limited edition of 1,000 copies (of which 200 are available through Artbook|D.A.P.). Each copy is signed by Moriyama on the title page, and both the book and the slipcase are numbered. MMM Label is a colaborative publishing house dedicated to publishing the work of Daido Moriyama, Satoshi Machiguchi, and Hisako Motoo This book is signed on the title page, and stamped on the slipcase and back page as NUMBER 191 out of 1000. Condition: Excellent, with slight damage to cover top corners as seen in images, with some markings on the card slipcase back Show more