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

Art & Exhibitions

Daido Moriyama Shows Unforgiving Color Photography at Fondation Cartier

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Daido Moriyama Shows Unforgiving Color Photography at Fondation Cartier

Art & Exhibitions

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)

Letter to Nakahira Takuma, Fin (ueno), 1980

Daido Moriyama

Letter to Nakahira Takuma, Fin (ueno), 1980

Sale Date: September 30, 2020

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How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Sale Date: September 25, 2020

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Untitled from Buenos Aires, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Untitled from Buenos Aires, 2005

Sale Date: September 25, 2020

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裂痕Rip, 2013

Daido Moriyama

裂痕Rip, 2013

Sale Date: August 8, 2020

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Untitled, 2019

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2019

Sale Date: August 1, 2020

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: August 1, 2020

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Work, 1999

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: August 1, 2020

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Tights in Shimotakaido, 2013

Daido Moriyama

Tights in Shimotakaido, 2013

Sale Date: July 9, 2020

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Sans titre

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 30, 2020

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 20, 2020

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Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Sale Date: May 21, 2020

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Harley Davidson, 2007, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Harley Davidson, 2007, 2007

Sale Date: June 3, 2020

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Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Sale Date: May 12, 2020

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Work

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 18, 2020

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犬, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: April 21, 2020

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How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Sale Date: April 23, 2020

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森山大道

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: February 24, 2020

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Landscape, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Landscape, 2005

Sale Date: July 13, 2020

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How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights..., 1987

Sale Date: July 13, 2020

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Untitled

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: February 28, 2020

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Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, Aomori, 1971

Sale Date: February 11, 2020

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ACCIDENT, 2011

Daido Moriyama

ACCIDENT, 2011

Sale Date: February 1, 2020

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1. Biography of Light 7／2. Sunny Place, , 1968–1990

Daido Moriyama

1. Biography of Light 7／2. Sunny Place, , 1968–1990

Sale Date: February 1, 2020

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1. DUCUMENTARY 78 ('86.4 Setagaya-ku, Tokyo)／2....

Daido Moriyama

1. DUCUMENTARY 78 ('86.4 Setagaya-ku, Tokyo)／2....

Sale Date: February 1, 2020

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