DAIDO MORIYAMA
I promise you this isn't a post about Tokyo. It's Tokyo adjacent. This is a heads up to all you photo nerds out there who might never have heard of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. Let's put it this way....sometimes an artist's work hits you so hard it knocks the darn wind out of you and that's what Daido's work did to me last week. Surprisingly, I've had a book of his lying around for a few years and I always admired his photos, but I never totally immersed myself in it. But last week I saw a big, beautiful four volume set of his complete works at a gallery in Tokyo and I seriously have not stopped thinking about his stuff since. Daido has been taking photos since the 1960's (he's 68 now) and while his early hauntingly dark and beautiful shots of the Tokyo underworld are amazing, he honestly keeps getting better with age. I want to do a proper story on him for an upcoming ANPQ article, but just for the sake of blowing it up early...here's a preview of some Moriyama works from the last thirty years:
posted by Aaron Rose at 9:46 AM
4 Comments:
moriyama. is. amazing. i'm so glad you got to see his stuff over there. i remember my mom had one of his books and when i was younger. i didn't like the photos back then. i was a pretty dumb kid tho. now i can understand dark. a lot. better.
Last time I was in Japan I saw a video in a museum that was basically, "Moriyama vs Araki." They went out and shot Shinjuku, a district in Tokyo, and the video was of them basically attacking the environment in their style and method of pointing the camera at the world. But it was kind of funny because it was a total unleashing of two japanese photographers onto the same street like they were in some kind of only-in-Japan weird absurd competion.
super fantastic
rad
Post a Comment
<< Home