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Daidō Moriyama


Born
in Ikeda, Osaka, Japan
October 10, 1938

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Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō, born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.

Moriyama began his career as an assistant to photographer Eikoh Hosoe, a co-founder of the avant-garde photo cooperative Vivo, and made his mark with his first photobook Japan: A Photo Theater, published in 1968. His formative work in the 1960s boldly captured the darker qualities of urban life in postwar Japan in rough, unfettered fashion, filtering the rawness of human experience through sharply tilted angles, grained textures, harsh contrast, and blurred movements through the photographer's wandering gaze. Many of
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The World Through My Eyes

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Daido Moriyama: Journey for...

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Daido Moriyama

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Daido Moriyama Tales of Ton...

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Daido Moriyama: Tokyo

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Memories of a Dog

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Daido Moriyama: Record

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Farewell Photography

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Daido Tokyo

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“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”
Daido Moriyama

“People’s bodies sticky with olive oil as they stand on an overcrowded beach looking at the gutter-like sea... [a] black spectacle [that] appears cruel and rather “accidental.” [on his series "Accident 10: Sombre (Black) Sunday"]”
Daido Moriyama

“My photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others barely seen out of the corner of one’s eye.”
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