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vowels Team
"New York is a city that I like a lot - perhaps a little bit more even than I like Tokyo.
I've only been there one single time, but for me New York isn't just a place somewhere in the world - New York is for me the world itself.
It certainly is a melting pot of people, concrete, steel and glass, but it is at once charged with an indefinable sort of tenderness and sadness. That tenderness and sadness lingers in a quite unique shape inside myself, which is why I sometimes think of the lights of New York like one reminisces about a lover. As I have a severe fear of flying, unfortunately I can't just hop on a plane and fly over to New York whenever I feel like doing so. When I went there last time, I shot 1,500 pictures with my half-frame camera, which ended up locked away mostly without being shown anywhere. It appeared to me that l'd like to try and collect them in an album that's like an album of a lover's pictures, and as Shimizu Gallery offered to provide the setting for the production of that album, my dream finally came true.
I keep thinking that, if Tokyo, the place on "this side" that is so close yet at once so irritatingly far, is "my country", then New York is for me a far but familiar place on the other side, or in other words,
"another country.""
- Daido Moriyama
I've only been there one single time, but for me New York isn't just a place somewhere in the world - New York is for me the world itself.
It certainly is a melting pot of people, concrete, steel and glass, but it is at once charged with an indefinable sort of tenderness and sadness. That tenderness and sadness lingers in a quite unique shape inside myself, which is why I sometimes think of the lights of New York like one reminisces about a lover. As I have a severe fear of flying, unfortunately I can't just hop on a plane and fly over to New York whenever I feel like doing so. When I went there last time, I shot 1,500 pictures with my half-frame camera, which ended up locked away mostly without being shown anywhere. It appeared to me that l'd like to try and collect them in an album that's like an album of a lover's pictures, and as Shimizu Gallery offered to provide the setting for the production of that album, my dream finally came true.
I keep thinking that, if Tokyo, the place on "this side" that is so close yet at once so irritatingly far, is "my country", then New York is for me a far but familiar place on the other side, or in other words,
"another country.""
- Daido Moriyama
