#SLOW MOTION FOR ME SERIES#

#SLOW MOTION FOR ME SERIES#

Here, that’s established by the time we reach the second room, through a bevy of works from the series Accident: Premeditated or Not (1969) that Moriyama unfurled in monthly ‘chapters’ in Asahi Camera. (His first major project, for Gendai no Me, in 1965: glimmering chiaroscuro images of preserved human foetuses in a former gynaecological hospital.) Inspired early on by William Klein’s hypercontrasty metropolitan reportage and by Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster silkscreens – see Moriyama’s fondness for photocopied images as well as his gravitation towards death scenes – he has always been a street-level observer, keen on obliterating layers of decorum or concealment to present modern-day Japan in its most insalubrious light.

Still, given that the Osakan lensman founded his reputation via widely circulating, gritty photostories for Japanese photography magazines like Camera Mainichi during the mid-1960s, it makes formal sense. It might, then, seem like a surprisingly cheapskate move on C/O Berlin’s part that many of the images included in his circa-250-work Retrospective aren’t photographic prints at all, but reproductions pasted to the walls. Now eighty-four, Daido Moriyama has a good claim to being postwar Japan’s greatest photographer. Let me now explain these in more detail.Daido Moriyama’s Retrospective at C/O Berlin shows how the real world is scarier than photographs economy has also already started, but on “stealth mode”. economy would be resilient, while it’s simply eating itself from inside out. The massive amount of money pushed into the economy during the Corona times has led to an illusion that the U.S. However, like I been warning, these measures just pushed the crisis back under the surface from where it will, most likely, re-emerge with a renewed fervor. As a result, the financial system nearly unraveled in late-March stopped only by the very exceptional (draconian) measures of U.S. economy into a ‘powder keg’ with the Federal Reserve lighting the fuse with its most rapid interesting hiking cycle in the history of the central bank. Corona lockdowns and stimulus checks effectively turned the U.S. You simply cannot keep interest rates to near zero for a decade and push trillions of dollars into the economy without making it fragile. So, the collapse of the European economy started, but because the energy-shock eased, it morphed into a stealth collapse, and now the Israel-Palestine conflict has the capacity to turn it to overdrive. Yet, the combination of energy, inflation and interest rate shocks simply could not pass the (zombified) European economy without serious repercussions. This meant that many European corporations and even some governments (not to mention banks) were able to continue operating only with the help of massive monetary and fiscal support. Country-related macroeconomics imbalances magnified by the European common currency (euro), ultra-low interest rates and asset-purchase programs (money printing) by the European Central Bank (ECB) had zombified the European economy. This was something we simply could not avoid. However, while we were spared from the energy-shutdown, under the surface, the collapse still started. The rapid response of European authorities to secure alternative supplies of natural gas, naturally, also helped. Fortunately, Europe experienced one of the mildest winters on record, sparing us from that fate. Cutting off most of Russian gas and dwindling electricity production threatened to push our continent into rolling blackouts or even into an “energy-shutdown”. My warning concerned primarily the situation in Europe, which was darkening fast due to accelerating inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and massive spike in energy prices. While this somewhat exempted me, banking panics were actually just my secondary concern, when I published the warning. In mid-March we almost got there with the banking panics in the U.S and Switzerland, which were quickly quelled by the (rather draconian) measures of the authorities. On November 23, I published an ominous Tweet in X (Twitter), warning to expect a global collapse “of everything” within the next four months. Under the surface, economic collapse is gathering steam. consumer is in her ‘last innings’, and a credit crunch is about to hit the U.S. Europe is experiencing a rapid increase, a “Flood”, of corporate bankruptcies, which are likely to pickup pace shortly.

Slow motion for me