Daido Moriyama is one of the most important living photographers and photobook makers of current times. His career began during the sixties in Tokyo, where he became a member of the influential Provoke group that created the most important style of Japanese post-war avantgarde photography. His oeuvre plays a central part in the establishment of Japanese photography as one of the important creative developments in the history of photography. In more than 50 years, Moriyama gained fame through his coarse, contrast-rich, partly unfocussed and highly grainy black-and-white photography, in which he deals which urban experiences, especially around the streets of Tokyo. His immense influence on young Japanese artists continues to date. Apart from B+W photography, Moriyama works with color, Polaroid’s, screen-printing, film, texts and installation. His fame is predominantly due to the more than 150 photobooks that he has continuously published—including masterpieces like »Japan—A Photo Theatre« (1968), »Farewell Photography« (1972), »Light and Shadow« (1982) and »Shinjuku« (2002).

Thank you to all who submitted photobook dummies!

In total, 443 photobooks from 34 countries from all over the world, from South Africa to Norway, from Russia to Australia, from Japan to America, from China to Brazil were sent in to the 2013 International Photobook Dummy Award. The first selection resulted in 55 photobooks as chosen by Chiara Capodici (Curator, Treterzi, Rome), Sebastian Hau (Le Bal Books, Paris), Dieter Neubert (Director Fotobookfestival, Kassel), Fiorenza Pinna (Curator, Treterzi, Rome), Markus Schaden (Curator, schaden.com, Cologne), Inga Schneider (Curator, Cologne), Thomas Wiegand (Blogger, Art Historian, Kassel). These 55 photobook dummies are on display in Milan »MIA | Milan Image Art Fair« (10 to 12 May), in Dublin »PhotoIreland Festival« (1 to 31 July), in Paris »Le Bal« (26 August to 7 September), and in Kassel »6th Fotobookfestival« (24 to 27 October). The three winners will be selected by the main jury at the Fotobookfestival Kassel. The winner of the First Prize is given the opportunity to realize his or her dummy as a "real" book with the printers and publishers Seltmann + Söhne, Germany and the book is presented in the art magazine European Photography. The 2nd and 3rd prizes will be supplied by blurb: the 2nd prize is books to the value of 500 Euros, the 3rd prize books to the value of 300 Euros.

The 2013 shortlistet photobook dummies:

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