Araki: Shinjuku is summer. Just the other day, the two of us were walking around, shooting nothing in particular but each and every shot was good. ‘Course there was that high being with you, but even just walking around is fine, no need for masterpieces. Whatever appeared before our eyes was a picture. Everything makes photos for us.
Moriyama: (chuckles) Yeah, I guess you can say that.
Araki: That being how I do things, there are no “great pictures” but, “Hey, what’s this?” Just look! (laughs)
Moriyama: Who needs “masterpieces”?
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excerpt from Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki in Conversation (Sept. 28th 2004)
MORIYAMA - SHINJUKU - ARAKI (Heibonsha, 2005)
original photograph by Sakiko Nomura