Daido Moriyama

Name: Daido Moriyama
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SKU: 9788857200613
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Daido Moriyama offers an expansive look at one of Japan's most influential contemporary photographers. Known for his provocative style featuring dirty, blurry, and overexposed images, Moriyama's work captures the overlooked moments of everyday life and transforms them into powerful scenes charged with emotions. His unique perspective unveils hidden aspects of Japanese culture and invites readers to explore reality from a distinct and compelling viewpoint.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary and Japanese photography, art students, and readers interested in visual culture and urban life through the lens of a pioneering artist.

A monograph devoted to Daido Moriyama, one of the pre-eminent names in contemporary Japanese photography. Seeing how he transforms the small, easily overlooked moments of everyday life into scenes of deep significance, the readers may be drawn into an investigation of reality in contemporary life.

Description

This is a broad monograph devoted to Daido Moriyama, one of the pre-eminent names in contemporary Japanese photography alongside Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu.

Moriyama's photography is provocative, both for the form it takes—dirty, blurry, overexposed, or scratched—and for its content. The viewer's experience of the photo—whether it captures a place, a person, a situation, or an atmosphere—is the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artist's emotions.

His perspective and cultural background reveal aspects of Japan heretofore unknown. Seeing how he transforms the small, easily overlooked moments of everyday life into scenes of deep significance, the reader will be drawn into an investigation of reality in contemporary life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857200613

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 September 2010

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Illustration: Illustrated in black and white throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Filippo Maggia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1660g

Pages: 440

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Daido Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. Among the most famous of Moriyama's works is the 1971 shot of a stray dog (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). Like many of his other works it features everyday objects or landscapes shot from unfamiliar angles, giving them a stark and unusual perspective. Among the artists that influenced Moriyama are Andy Warhol, William Klein and the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. Daido Moriyama's work is permanently on exhibition at Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston. Filippo Maggia teaches History of Contemporary Photography and Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin.