A driving method of a liquid crystal device for recording an image, the
liquid crystal device including a liquid crystal layer having a
cholesteric liquid crystal, a photoconductor layer accumulated on the
liquid crystal layer, and electrodes, includes initializing an entire
liquid crystal layer to a focal conic texture by applying a voltage
exceeding a threshold value of transition from a planar texture to a
focal conic texture, exposing the liquid crystal device imagewise while
applying a voltage not exceeding a threshold value from the focal conic
texture to a homeotropic texture upon non-exposure but exceeding the
threshold value upon exposure and that provides bistability of the focal
conic texture and the homeotropic texture with hysteresis upon
non-exposure, and fixing a displayed image by releasing an application of
voltage to change a part of the liquid crystal layer changed to the
homeotropic texture to the planar texture.