Dog memory

I choose the path of direct collision, carrying my camera into the city, like a stray dog, wandering among the streets and crowds.
The stronger this colliding energy, the more apparent it is in my work…

The first Chinese edition of Japanese photography master Daido Moriyama's work
The first part of the legendary "Stray Dog Trilogy" from the 80s, "Memory of a Dog"
The primary autobiographical work that serves as an introduction to the master's world.
Reprinted in Japanese in 2001; published in English hardcover in 2004; Chinese edition launched in 2009.
Raw and primitive, with a strong black-and-white photography style, it starkly records urban life scenes.
The youthful sensibility and vitality in the images express the strong inner vitality of people,
Highly infectious, deeply touching every city dweller.

Daido Moriyama, who likened himself to a stray dog, successively wrote "Memory of a Dog," "Time of a Dog," and "Memory of a Dog – The Final Chapter," known as the Stray Dog Trilogy, since the 1980s. These are considered representative autobiographical works for entering the master's world. Among them, "Memory of a Dog" is particularly significant, first published in 1982; the reprinted paperback edition in 2001 has been reissued over ten times; and an English hardcover edition was published in 2004.

Rather than saying photography is documentation, it is more accurate to say photography is memory, a historical process accumulated by a series of memories.
It is also a fossil of time, and moreover, a myth of light and shadow. — Daido Moriyama