Dashwood Projects, our ancillary space at 56 East 4th Street—between Bowery and Second Avenue just a few blocks from Dashwood Books, opened March 14, 2024.  It is an experimental space to extend the life and boundaries of our publishing program dedicated to exhibitions and selling work by artists we’ve collaborated with over the years. 



Daido Moriyama Shashin Jidai 1981—1988
写真時代  森山大道  一九八一 〜 一九八八年



03/15/24—05/11/24
Opening: 03/14/24
With the publication of his serialized photo-essay Hikari to Kage (Light and Shadow) in the first issues of the Japanese photography magazine, Shashin Jidai, from 1981-1982, Daido Moriyama announced his return to photography after nearly a decade. Moriyama had been mired in an acute creative slump from his mid thirties, since the publication of his seminal book, Farewell Photography in 1972.  Unable to take nearly any photos for a prolonged period, he turned to illicit drugs, ultimately wasting away to little more than 40 kgs before he hit physical and emotional rock bottom.  Lured back by Akira Hasegawa, Shashin Jidai’s editor, he was invited to contribute photographs for each issue.  This began a long relationship between Moriyama and Shashin Jidai in which he went on to make a total of six serialized essays that appeared in all but one issue until its’ demise in April 1988.  During this period Moriyama worked almost exclusively for Shasin Jidai and was given a free hand to explore and experiment and in the process evolved a new aesthetic that still informs his photography today. Tragically, more than eighty percent of his negatives were lost from this pivotal body of work.  This inaugural exhibition at Dashwood Projects is comprised of a selection of silver gelatin prints, posters and original tearsheets drawn from each of the six serialized essays. The exhibition is based on the book by the same name published by Dashwood Books and Session Press. 

A Journey to Nakaji, 10, Shadow. May 1985. p.27.

「仲治への旅 十 影」 ( 一九八五年五月)  27 頁

Poster

20.75 × 28 in

$35

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Tokyo, A Following Story 3, Winter Trip. May 1984. Abuta, Hokkaido pp.44–45.

「東京 番外篇三 冬の旅」 (一九八四年五月) 北海道虻田郡 44 − 45頁

Poster

31 × 21 in

$35

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Daido Moriyama Shashin Jidai 1981–1988 
写真時代  森山大道  一九八一 〜 一九八八年

Book

Published by Dashwood Books and Session Press
First edition
Softcover with poster
424 pages
11.5 × 7.5 inches 

$80

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