Daido Moriyama A Retrospective /English

Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective: Widely regarded as the photographer Japan's most influential and prolific artist, Daido Moriyama, defies the conventions of art for over half a century. This retrospective exhaustive and electrifying, published in cooperation with the Daido Foundation Moriyama and based on entirely new research, addresses each step of Moriyama's vast career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography. \nPart of a generation of revolutionary artists in Japan Post-war, Moriyama continually established his own visual grammar. This book features over 190 chronologically arranged images that reveal the constant evolution of his career: his first editorial works in the field from the 1960s, focusing on the American occupation and experimental theater; his radical experiments of the late 1960s and 1970s; self-reflexive photographs of the 1980s and 1990s; and its exploration permanent of cities, among other important moments. The work includes also over 400 prints of rarely seen Moriyama publications, mapping the sources of his visual production. The work is completed by texts by the editor and eminent Japanese specialists, a personal essay of the artist and a complete chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama's output, this impressive volume reframes Moriyama's legacy and will certainly become the publication definitive on his work.