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Daido Moriyama
森山大道 · 森山大道
Facts
- Life
- born 10 October 1938
- Nationality
- Japanese
Books and writings
Photobooks
- Japan: A Photo Theater · 1968
Moriyama's first book, with text by Shūji Terayama: theatres, streets and travelling performers.
- Farewell Photography · 1972
Out-of-focus frames, scratches, sprocket edges and rejects all printed: a farewell to photography and the extreme of are-bure-boke.
- Another Country · 1974
- Light and Shadow · 1982
His return after years of silence; the 1983 Photographic Society of Japan Annual Award.
- Time of Dogs · 1995
Autobiographies, memoirs and diaries
First-edition dates only; reprints, translations and revised editions are on each book's page. What autobiographies and interviews say is the photographer's own account, not independently verified fact.
Awards
Style, as we read it
An editorial summary of the body of work by FilmAnalysis: interpretation, not historical record.
Are, bure, boke: grainy, blurred, out of focus. The Provoke-era snapshots of Shinjuku, a stray dog, headlights on a highway, all printed so hard that the city becomes a scream in black and white. He has never stopped walking and shooting.
- Colour
- Mostly black and white; the colour work keeps the same roughness.
- Composition
- Tilted, cropped, shot from the hip; fragments rather than scenes.
- Light
- Flash, neon, harsh sun, deep shade.
- Tone
- Crushed blacks, burnt whites, almost no mid-grey.
- Texture
- Extreme grain, blur, scratches, halftone.
- Mood
- Feverish, restless, erotic, urban.
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