Daido Moriyama: a retrospective
Over 256 pages, the book offers images and texts by Daido Moriyama, researchers Yuri Mitsuda, Toda Masako, Masashi Kohara and catalog organizer Thyago Nogueira. It also includes an extensive chronology of the photographer’s career, written by Yutaka Kambayashi, Satoshi Machiguchi, and Kazuya Kimura, and full reproduction of important features and books by the artist.
Daido Moriyama was born in Ikeda, Osaka, in 1938. He moved to Tokyo in 1961 where he worked as a freelance photographer for various Japanese magazines such as Asahi Camera, Camera Mainichi, and later Shashin Jidai. Moriyama joined the influential magazine Provoke in 1969. In subsequent decades, he went on to publish over 100 books, including the widely acclaimed A Hunter (1972), the experimental Farewell Photography (1972), the reflective Light and Shadow (1982), as well as monographs dedicated to unique places such as Shinjuku (2002) and Hokkaido (2008). He achieved international acclaim with his retrospective Stray Dog at SFMoMA in 1999. In addition, he has received various awards, including the Hasselblad Award (2018).