This is the 59th issue of Daido Moriyama's long-running photography magazine "Record".
Originally launched in 1972, the project was revived in 2006 in collaboration with Akio Nagasawa. Daido Moriyama, now 86 years old, fills the pages of "Record No. 59" with a wide variety of subjects, from spontaneous snapshots of strangers on the street to capturing intimate moments on a train, streets lit up at night, ships leaving harbors, posters, and storefronts.
“My own photo magazine Record is in its 19th year since relaunch, now getting to No. 59 in total. It was at Café Huit on top of a building in the middle of Shinjuku that has long gone, where I received a strong request from Mr. Akio Nagasawa, the current publisher, to relaunch that handmade and privately pressed zine that had failed and folded after the 5th issue, some 30+ years earlier. “Come on Moriyama-san, keep putting that Record out! I will make it, let’s start right away!” Those words, in that moment, revived my memories of the magazine that I had all but forgotten about, and all of a sudden I could see it right in front of me, shining in a bright new light […]
For the next 19 years, most of the snapshots taken during the second half of my photographing life (except for the somewhat “commercial” stuff that sneaks in every now and then) have been collected in Record. Even the pictures that I brought home from travels and shootings abroad, ended up getting published in the form of one issue of Record. In other words, all of the myriad scenes of everyday life that I have captured with my camera in the later years of my life, have been converted into pages in that magazine, which means that everything in Record is a memory, a souvenir, a record in itself.”
― from Daido Moriyama’s afterword
