Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our ninth solo exhibition with Daido Moriyama entitled “bye-bye polaroid”. This latest exhibition will feature around 600 polaroids, taken in Tokyo between April and August this year.

“Snap the shutter and get a photo in a minute!” was the underlying concept and stance behind using polaroid, rather like the instant rice TV commercial “Step in the front door and have rice in two minutes!” For more than half a century, polaroid enabled the dream for instantly visible pictures to become reality. I have to write this in the past tense because Polaroid ended the production of instant films this summer. So I thought about holding an exhibition of polaroids to say good bye to the medium personally. Yes, “bye-bye polaroid!” There was nothing more exciting for me than taking polaroid pictures.

Daido Moriyama