Daido Moriyama
Daido Tokyo
text by Daido Moriyama

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Author(s)

Daido Moriyama

Publication

Paris : Fondation Cartier, 2016

Scope

248 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

ISBN

9782869251229

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Selection of contemporary Moriyama material shot in Tokyo split between colour and black&white, published to accompany the solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain from December 2015 to March 2016. Moriyama invented a new visual language in his work from the mid- 1960s onwards. Frenetic and tormented, it depicted a reality that was grainy, blurry and out-of-focus. Depicting backstreet neighbourhoods in the Japanese capital – a favorite location for the photographer – these images reference the motifs that are omnipresent in the artist’s work.

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Person as subject

Daido Moriyama

Keywords

photography

Location

Cabinet 12 - 2: Fotografen

Extra themes

Walk / stroll / explore / hang out

Remarks