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Widely considered Japan's most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. This exhaustive and electrifying retrospective, published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, looks at every stage of Moriyama's extensive career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography.
One of a generation of postwar Japan's groundbreaking artists, Moriyama has continually established his own visual grammar. This book features more than 190 chronologically arranged images that reveal his constantly evolving career: his early editorial work of the mid-1960s, focused on the American occupation and the experimental theater; his radical experimentation of late 1960s and the 1970s; the self-reflexive photos of the 1980s and 1990s; and his ongoing exploration of cities, among other relevant moments. It also includes more than 400 spreads from Moriyama's rarely seen publications, mapping the sources of his visual production. Rounding out the volume are texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a full chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama's output this impressive volume reframes Moriyama's legacy, and is certain to become the definitive publication on his work.
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THYAGO NOGUEIRA is the head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil, and editor of ZUM photography magazine. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including "Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle" and "William Eggleston: The American Color"; served as guest editor for an Aperture magazine issue dedicated to São Paulo photography; and chaired the 2020 Hasselblad Award.YURI MITSUDA is a curator, critic, and author.MASAKO TODA is a photo historian, author, and curator of Japanese photography. She holds a masters from The University of Tokyo. Toda is a lecturer at Musashino Art University, Tokyo College of Photography, among others. In 2006, she was awarded the incentive award by the Japan Society for Arts and History of Photography. Toda’s field of expertise is the history of modernism as well as postwar Japanese photography.MASASHI KOHARA is an associate professor at Tokyo Polytechnic University.DAIDO MORIYAMA is one of postwar Japan’s most groundbreaking artists. Born in 1938 in the present-day district of Uho, Ikeda city, Moriyama has produced more than 150 photobooks to date and his work has been exhibited worldwide. He received the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photographyin 2019. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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Widely considered Japan’s most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. This exhaustive and electrifying retrospective, published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, looks at every stage of Moriyama’s extensive career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography.
One of a generation of postwar Japan’s groundbreaking artists, Moriyama has continually established his own visual grammar. This book features more than 190 chronologically arranged images that reveal his constantly evolving career: his early editorial work of the mid-1960s, focused on the American occupation and the experimental theater; his radical experimentation of late 1960s and the 1970s; the self-reflexive photos of the 1980s and 1990s; and his ongoing exploration of cities, among other relevant moments. It also includes more than 400 spreads from Moriyama’s rarely seen publications, mapping the sources of his visual production. Rounding out the volume are texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a full chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama’s output this impressive volume reframes Moriyama’s legacy, and is certain to become the definitive publication on his work.
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»Der Katalog mit mehr als 400 Bildern ist das bisher vollständigste Kompendium zu Daido Moriyamas Werk.«
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»... erfreulich experimentierfreudig und damit durchaus auf Linie des japanischen Meisters der Street Photography. Ein unverzichtbarer Bildband zum Schaffen des Japaners!« foto Magazin
