Daidō Moriyama

Daidō Moriyama

Daidō Moriyama, Tokyo 2010
Born (1938-10-10) October 10, 1938
Ikeda, Osaka
Nationality Japanese
Known for Photography

Daidō Moriyama (森山 大道 Moriyama Daidō[1], born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.

Moriyama received the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Center of Photography in New York.[2]

Life and work

Born in Ikeda, Osaka, Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō, which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts.

Moriyama's style is synonymous with that of Provoke magazine, which he was involved with in 1969,[3] namely 'are, bure, bokeh', translated as 'grainy / rough, blurry, and out-of-focus'.[4]

Moriyama's photography has been influenced by Seiryū Inoue, Shōmei Tōmatsu, William Klein, Andy Warhol,[5] Eikoh Hosoe, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, the dramatist Shūji Terayama[6] and Jack Kerouac's On the Road.[7]

Publications

Publications by Moriyama

Publications with others

Solo exhibitions

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Earlier, well-informed Japanese publications give "Hiromichi Moriyama" as the romanized form of his name. One example is Shashinka hyakunin: Kao to shashin (写真家100人 顔と写真, 100 photographers: Profiles and photographs), a special publication of Camera Mainichi magazine (1973).
  2. 1 2 "Infinity Awards 2012". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Daido, Moriyama; Maggia, Filippo; Lazzarini, Francesca (2010). The World Through My Eyes. Milan: Skira. p. 437. ISBN 978-88-572-0061-3.
  4. ↑ "For the sake of thought: Provoke, 1968–1970", Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 8 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Theme Magazine - Daido Moriyama Photographs His Beloved Shinjuku By Jiae Kim". Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  6. ↑ Philip Charrier, "The Making of a Hunter: Moriyama Daidō 1966-1972," History of Photography, Volume 34, Number 3 (August 2010): 268-290.
  7. ↑ "Culture Vulture - Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog". Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  8. ↑ http://www.poursuite-editions.org/
  9. ↑ This and others in this list from "Daidō Moriyama's CV at Luhring Augustine" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  10. ↑ "Daido Moriyama at Luhring Augustine, 2010".
  11. ↑ "Exhibitions: Daido Moriyama 'TSUGARU'", Taka Ishii Gallery.
  12. ↑ http://fondation.cartier.com/#/en/art-contemporain/26/exhibitions/2460/now-on/2556/daido-moriyama-daido-tokyo/
  13. 1 2 3 "Daidō Moriyama's CV at Luhring Augustine" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-07-05.
  14. ↑ List of award winners, PSJ. (Japanese) Accessed 2010-08-28.

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