RECORD NO.15
eBook
Published on
April 25, 2010
ebook Published on
July 24, 2013
The creator of the photography book New York, William Klein once described the city in which he was born and raised as “a mixture of beauty, tenderness, absurd brutality, and fathomless intimidation” before leaving for Paris.
The city of New York, and the Manhattan neighborhood in particular, is certainly one huge melting pot of human desires, and as one can easily imagine that it is an extremely practical location, it seems just natural to me that an artist of a nervous and sensitive nature sooner or later feels like plotting an escape.
For myself, however, who is always just a traveler, Manhattan has that throbbing something that attracts and spellbinds people – although it might of course be different if I wasn’t only visiting. New York is filled with a vague scent of mescaline, while the smell of Andy Warhol is billowing out of every street.
-DAIDO MORIYAMA
Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation
