Daido Moriyama Photofile
A Photofile by Thames & Hudson presenting Moriyama Daidō’s work in an accessible pocket-sized format.
This book identifies key influences in Moriyama Daidō’s work, including Tokyo, the writings of Jack Kerouac and Andy Warhol’s silkscreen prints. As Gabriel Bauret notes in his introduction, Light and Shadow is the title of a book published by Moriyama in 1982, but it could equally describe his wider photographic oeuvre.
His work constructs a powerful dialogue between light and shadow, and between black and white.
Moriyama Daidō was born in Osaka. After working as an assistant to photographer Hosoe Eikoh, he became independent in 1964 and remains active today. His work is characterised by high-contrast imagery and coarse-grained textures, often described by the phrase “are, bure, boke” (rough, blurred, out of focus).
He has held numerous solo exhibitions at major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. His honours include the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Chevalier) in 2018 and the Hasselblad Award in 2019.
19 x 12.5 x 0.7 cm
144 pages
