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July 6th, 2015-Complete Editione-Book

Supervised by Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation"Each single shutter I released contains an equal meaning"
Daido Moriyama
on releasing LABYRINTH in 2012

Worldwide Release：Now on SALE!
■Announcing the world wide e-Book release ofDAIDO MORIYAMA's LABYRINTH -Complete EditionPlexus Co.,Ltd and euphonic,inc. is proudly announcing the release of the e-Book version of Daido
Moriyama's "LABYRINTH" as " LABYRINTH -Complete Edition-" on iBookstore from June 3rd, 2015.
Amazon Kindle version starts sale from July 6th.
LABYRINTH -Complete Edition- reveals more than 3,000 shots of unseen photos, which was not printed on the original version of the book. The negative ﬁlm of each page was precisely selected andaligned by Daido Moriyama himself and was printed as a Contact Sheet.
This e-Book version of LABYRINTH is not just a "complete" edition, but is a joy for your eyes throughthe entirely new way to view each shots one by one, by enlarging each image, by swipe and pinch
in/out & ﬂick. You are to explore Photographer Daido Moriyama's entire works from his early days tothe 21st century.

A door to another "LABYRINTH" opens now.
Includes 3,000 previously unreleased shots.

Each day is a journey of the mind and body through a labyrinth.
-Daido Moriyama (Experts from the original text of LABYRINTH)

Welcome to LABYRINTHLABYRINTH -Complete Edition- Cover"I had to go through my entire ﬁlm archive one by one to reconstruct
the contact print for this book" Daido Moriyama
Looking back the whole ﬁlms forced Daido Moriyama to take a journey to his own path as a Photographer. Each single Contact Sheet,reconstructed by himself, contains the essence of Daido's vision fromthe 1960's till now. Daido Moriyama named this book "LABYRINTH" byhimself, reﬂecting the process of creation.
Browsing through each shot after another shot creates the illusion of amotion and rhythm. We can reach out to the photographer's heatbeat,soul and vision through this process. You will discover the alternative
cut among the well known masterpiece and will notice how close youcame accross the essence of Daido's instinct to release the "shutter".
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DAIDO MORIYAMA / Born 1938 in Osaka. After working as an assistant for photographers Takeji
Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, he went independent in 1964. He has been publishing his works inphotography magazines among others, and received a New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics
Association for Japan: A Photo Theater in 1967. Between 1968 and 70 he was involved in the photofanzine Provoke, and his style of grainy, high-contrast images that came to be referred to as are,bure, boke (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) made an impact on the realm of photography. Solo shows at
New York' s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l Art Contemporain in Parissolidiﬁed Moriyama s worldwide reputation, and in 2012, he became the ﬁrst Japanese to beawarded in the category of Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Annual Inﬁnity Awards hosted by theInternational Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The William Klein + Daido Moriyama
exhibition together with William Klein at London s Tate Modern in 2012-13 was a showdown of two
immensely popular photographers that took the world by storm.
Daido keeps going on enourmous amount of Street Snap under the motto…. "There are no Quality
without Quantity"
e-Book version of "Record series" was originally released in June, 2013 domestic in Japan, and it has
been released worldwide in September, 2014 from Apple iBookstore and Kindle Store. e-Book versionof "Record Series" will continue. RECORD¦Movie in LONDON (2013) Vimeo On Demand now on sale.

Excerpts from "DAIDO MORIYAMA LABYRINTH -Complete Edition-"Plexus is proudly presenting LABYRINTH -Complete Edition- by re-scanning the entire 300 contact
sheets with a High-Resolution scanner and calibrate each pages one by one to maximize the visual
impact, and to reveal the essence of Daido Moriyama's original purpose.
LABYRINTH -Complete Edition- contains more than 3,000 previously unseen shots which were
dropped out on the original book published in 2012 from Akio Nagasawa Publishing.
Supported by : Akio Nagasawa Publishing and Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation■Details
LABYRINTH -Complete EditionPrice : US$40
Page : 325p
Including 3,000 previously unreleased shots
Released from Amazon Kindle Store/Apple iBookstore worldwide.
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