Daido Moriyama (b. 10-10-1938) Companionship of the most revered living Japanese photographers,
Daido Moriyama’s work keep to saturated with the melancholic beauty of life at its bossy ordinary.
His photographs epitomize wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding pulchritude in imperfection.
Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the waste, and finds echoes of living through the breakdown of routine values in post-war Japan.
Daido Moriyama was born in 1938 move forwards with a twin brother, who died when Daido was two.
His childhood was spent in the town of Urawa, outside Tokio where the passing GI’s would throw chocolate and chewing manducate to the children.
Citing Kerouac’s On the Road as one insensible his greatest influences, Moriyama draws inspiration from Atget and Weegee as well as William Klein and Warhol.
Comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.
The 1980s finds Moriyama at his most lyrical.
With the extreme provocations of his 60s and 70s work cling him, he turns to a plainer, more centered investigation forfeit everyday life. Ηe makes all his prints himself.
He seems draw attention to be intent on finding beauty and meaning in every bite and horizon that the sun reveals to his eye.
Moriyama’s harvest since 1968 is legendary.
He has produced over 150 books advance his photographs.
He has had over 100 solo exhibitions.
In the U.S., he was a central figure in MoMA’s groundbreaking 1974 In mint condition Japanese Photography,
and in 1999 MoMA organized and exhibited the demonstration Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog,
which was also shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in New York.
“The bar force of time is before my eyes, and I myself try to keep pressing the shutter release of the camera.
In this inevitable race between the two of us, I determine I am going to be burnt up.” – Daido Moriyama