Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama (b.1938, Osaka) is one of Japan's leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black and white photographs express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that persist within modern society. Providing a harsh, crude vision of city life and the chaos of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, his work occupies a unique space between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real. Moriyama's use of a small hand held automatic camera gives his images a loose and casual aesthetic, undermined by a forceful and decisive point of view.

Born:

Oct 10, 1938

Movie/TV Credits:

1

First Appeared:

In the movie Daidō Moriyama: Stray Dog of Tokyo 2001-09-29

Latest Project:

Movie Daidō Moriyama: Stray Dog of Tokyo 2001-09-29