Daido Moriyama

(Japanese, born 1938)

Daido Moriyama is a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational, black-and-white images depicting the contrast of traditional values and modern society in postwar Japan. Notable for his rejection of technical precision in favor of the grainy and high-contrast images produced by a compact camera, the artist captures a diaristic experience of wandering city streets. “The city has everything: comedy, tragedy, eulogy, eroticism,” he has remarked. “It is the ideal setting, the place where people’s desires are interwoven. It has remained and will always remain my natural element.” Born on October 10, 1938 in Osaka, Japan, Moriyama studied graphic design before taking lessons with photographer Takeji Iwamiya. Moving to Tokyo in 1961, he worked as an assistant to the experimental filmmaker and photographer Eiko Hosoe, and began producing and publishing his own collections of street photography. In 1967, Moriyama was awarded the New Artist Award from the Japan Photo-Critics Association. In 2016, Moriyama was the subject of the exhibition “In Color,” held at the Galleria Franca Sozzani in Milan, bringing together his lesser known color photographs from the 1960s to the 1980s. He continues to lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fotomuseum Wintherthur in Switzerland, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among others. .

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Art & Exhibitions

From an Elliptical Piano to a Renaissance Altarpiece—Rare Treasures Abound at New York’s Winter Show

From an Elliptical Piano to a Renaissance Altarpiece—Rare Treasures Abound at New York’s Winter Show

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Daido Moriyama Shows Unforgiving Color Photography at Fondation Cartier

by Hettie Judah

Daido Moriyama Shows Unforgiving Color Photography at Fondation Cartier

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Ben Davis's 20 Most Memorable New York Museum Shows of 2015

Ben Davis's 20 Most Memorable New York Museum Shows of 2015

Daido Moriyama Artworks

Daido Moriyama (910 results)

Filmograph 1 (Lips), 2001

Daido Moriyama

Filmograph 1 (Lips), 2001

Sale Date: October 5, 2021

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Eros or Something Other Than Eros情愛及其以外的東西, 2013

Daido Moriyama

Eros or Something Other Than Eros情愛及其以外的東西, 2013

Sale Date: October 12, 2021

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Neckties, 1982

Daido Moriyama

Neckties, 1982

Sale Date: October 3, 2021

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Commodities, 1974

Daido Moriyama

Commodities, 1974

Sale Date: October 3, 2021

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Color | 顏色, 2016

Daido Moriyama

Color | 顏色, 2016

Sale Date: September 21, 2021

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STRAY DOG, MISAWA, 1971

Daido Moriyama

STRAY DOG, MISAWA, 1971

Sale Date: November 18, 2021

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ROSE 1984

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: November 18, 2021

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Eros or something other than Eros, 1969

Daido Moriyama

Eros or something other than Eros, 1969

Sale Date: September 9, 2021

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: September 18, 2021

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Record No.6 (Special Limited Edition)/..., 2006

Daido Moriyama

Record No.6 (Special Limited Edition)/..., 2006

Sale Date: July 22, 2021

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Record Extra Issue No.1; Daido Moriyama ×..., 2007

Daido Moriyama

Record Extra Issue No.1; Daido Moriyama ×..., 2007

Sale Date: July 22, 2021

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Record No.18, 2012

Daido Moriyama

Record No.18, 2012

Sale Date: June 30, 2021

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Sans titre, 2004, 2004

Daido Moriyama

Sans titre, 2004, 2004

Sale Date: June 29, 2021

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Dog and Mesh Tights, 2014–2015

Daido Moriyama

Dog and Mesh Tights, 2014–2015

Sale Date: June 28, 2021

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MOTORCYCLE, 2008

Daido Moriyama

MOTORCYCLE, 2008

Sale Date: July 10, 2021

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UNTITLED, 2007

Daido Moriyama

UNTITLED, 2007

Sale Date: July 10, 2021

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UNTITLED, 2007

Daido Moriyama

UNTITLED, 2007

Sale Date: July 10, 2021

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STRAY DOG/MISAWA, 1–1973

Daido Moriyama

STRAY DOG/MISAWA, 1–1973

Sale Date: July 10, 2021

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Children who are too grownup (from the..., 1968

Daido Moriyama

Children who are too grownup (from the..., 1968

Sale Date: June 17, 2021

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Untitled

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 17, 2021

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Untitled

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 17, 2021

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The Complete Works, 2003

Daido Moriyama

The Complete Works, 2003

Sale Date: May 28, 2021

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Electric Wire, Suita City, Osaka, 1990

Daido Moriyama

Electric Wire, Suita City, Osaka, 1990

Sale Date: June 4, 2021

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Barber’s Shop, 1, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 1990

Daido Moriyama

Barber’s Shop, 1, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 1990

Sale Date: June 4, 2021

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