Gallery 01
About The Artist
Daido Moriyama was born in Ikeda, Osaka, in 1938. He moved to Tokyo in 1961 where he worked as a freelance photographer for various Japanese magazines such as Asahi Camera, Camera Mainichi, and later Shashin Jidai. Moriyama joined the influential magazine Provoke in 1969. In subsequent decades, he went on to publish over 100 books, including the widely acclaimed A Hunter (1972), the experimental Farewell Photography (1972), the reflective Light and Shadow (1982), as well as monographs dedicated to unique places such as Shinjuku (2002) and Hokkaido (2008). He achieved international acclaim with his retrospective Stray Dog at SFMoMA in 1999. In addition, he has received various awards, including the Hasselblad Award (2018). – C/O Berlin
Video: Artist Daido Moriyama – In Pictures | Tate
Gallery 02
Specifics
Kazuo Nishii: Daido Moriyama (Phaidon 55 series) | Phaidon, 2001.
Source: https://archive.org/details/daidomoriyama0000nish.
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