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In 1988 and 1989, Daido Moriyama decided to rent a small room in Paris to exhibit his photographs, which were then unknown in Europe. Gradually abandoning this idea, he immersed himself in the city and in photography, describing the experience as “ambiguous and elusive”, a far cry from the idealised image of Paris he had held in his teenage years. Fascinated by Eugène Atget, in this work he conveys the sense of melancholy he felt as he roamed the streets of the French capital, like a stray dog. An essay written by the artist, taken from the final volume of Mémoires d’un Chien, accompanies the plates in this small volume.