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Widely considered Japan’s most influential and prolific photographer, Daido MORIYAMA has been challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. he has continually established his own visual grammar. One of a generation of postwar Japan’s groundbreaking artists, he has continually established his own visual grammar. This exhaustive and electrifying retrospective, published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, looks at every stage of his extensive career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography. It is certain to become the definitive publication on his work.
Content
The photo volume 'Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective' by Thyago Nogueira, Yuri Mitsuda, Masako Toda and Masashi Kohara (editors & authors) features more than 190 chronologically arranged images that reveal his constantly evolving career: his early editorial work of the mid-1960s, focused on the American occupation and the experimental theater; his radical experimentation of late 1960s and the 1970s; the self-reflexive photos of the 1980s and 1990s; and his ongoing exploration of cities, among other relevant moments.
It also includes more than 400 spreads from rarely seen publications of Daido MORIYAMA, mapping the sources of his visual production. Rounding out the volume are texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a full chronology of his life and work." (sloghtly adapted publishers text, © Prestel, 2023)