Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama is a renowned Japanese photographer who has challenged conventions for over 50 years. This retrospective book features over 250 images, 400 spread reproductions, and texts by editor and scholars. It accompanies a major exhibition and is the definitive publication on his work.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2023
Publisher: Prestel

Daido Moriyama, widely regarded as Japan's most influential and prolific photographer, has been pushing the boundaries of the art form for over fifty years. This comprehensive and exhilarating retrospective, published in collaboration with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on extensive new research, delves into every stage of Moriyama's illustrious career, encompassing his extraordinary images and conceptual contributions to photography. As one of a generation of groundbreaking artists in postwar Japan, Moriyama has consistently established his unique visual language. This book showcases over 250 chronologically arranged images that chronicle his ever-evolving career, from his early editorial work in the mid-1960s, which focused on the American occupation and experimental theater, to his radical experimentation in the late 1960s and 1970s, his self-reflexive photographs in the 1980s and 1990s, and his ongoing exploration of cities. Additionally, it includes over 400 spread reproductions of Moriyama's rarely seen publications, providing a map of the sources of his visual production. Rounding out the volume are insightful texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a comprehensive chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama's output, this remarkable volume redefines Moriyama's legacy and is poised to become the definitive publication on his remarkable body of work.

Weight: 567g
Dimension: 260 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783791389257