Moriyama, Daido. Kagerou (Dayfly) (SIGNED). Tokyo: Haga Books, 1972.

Price: US$743.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Solid binding with creasing to spine, some soiling to wrappers and a little foxing to the extremities) in Very Good slipcase (structurally sound with worn edges and some paper loss around the crease of the spine and at the head). Signed in black ink by Moriyama, in Kanji and English ("Daido"), to the half title page. Softcover in slipcase. Cream stiff card wrappers, with the title debossed to the cover and printed to the spine, housed in a photographically illustrated paper covered card slipcase. Photographs by Daido Moriyama. 4to (26.5cm x 19cm in slipcase), unpaginated (pp.[188]), numerous black and white and colour reproductions. Cited in Alessandro Bertolotti, Books of Nudes (New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc., 2007). From Bertolotti: "Kagerou carries further the artistic revolt Moriyama began with Provoke 2: Eros. At the book's centre, the photographs show the photographer and his assistants tying up girls. At the beginning and the end, there are full page photos of the girls, tied up in white string, which constricts their bodies in humiliating poses. Moriyama intended this to represent the sadism of men, who pretend to have an inferiority complex with regard to women, and to highlight the correlations among the sex drive, death and madness."

Seller: Archive B, Macclesfield, CH, United Kingdom