Tono Monogatari / Tales of Tono

Daido Moriyama
Tono Monogatari / Tales of Tono

Photographs: Daido Moriyama

Publisher: Asahi sonorama

172 pages

Year: 1976

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 175 x 115 mm. First edition, 1976. Text in Japanese, black & white photographs. In very good condition other than a small dent on the cover.

"... One of these is Tales of Tono, first published in 1976, which features work shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan. Taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, its non-narrative diptychs display a nascent nostalgia, whilst the formal qualities of the photos embrace the grainy and raw techniques that Moriyama brought to his more urban subject matter. " (from the English reissue by the Tate)