Daido Moriyama

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• His visual language lives from light and darkness, under- and incorrect exposures, from smudges and oblique angles, which make the images seem incidental, at times even crude.The contrasts and shadows are often hard, the motifs partially cut off. Daido Moriyama is interested in the visual surprises of everyday life, from a fly on the windowpane looking out across the spectacular Tokyo vista, to construc- tion sites, storefront windows or torn down posters revealing layers of history of past events and films. In his own publications he presents all his motifs as full-page images, arranged equally, alongside one another. Or his impressions become images whose context of creation one can hardly fathom, such as the circular tiles of “love hotel” bathroom whose seemingly three-dimensional surfa... (查看原文)

  一月 2023-11-15 14:40:09

• For more than five decades, Moriyama has dedicated himself to a personally influenced portrait of Japanese society that frequently includes members of marginal groups whose existence challenges the cliché of the ultra- organized, fully employed market state. He continues to translate and reduce the cities’ attention-grabbing neon into classical black and white analogue photography. He still develops his pictures in his dark room at home, using multiple exposures and other effects, alon g with occasional post-processing to heighten the contrast. Moriyama maintains full control over his images, from shooting the photograph to the final print, and remains true to his own style – even when the world seems to abound with ever-advancing technical discoveries. Few know that, for several years now... (查看原文)

  一月 2023-11-15 14:40:09