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

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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)

Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: November 30, 2018

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Ah Kohya (Ah Wilderness)., 2005

Daido Moriyama

Ah Kohya (Ah Wilderness)., 2005

Sale Date: November 8, 2018

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Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: November 8, 2018

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"Inu no Toki" (The time of the dog, New..., 1995

Sale Date: November 23, 2018

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"Color 2", Sokyusha, Tokyo 1999

Sale Date: November 23, 2018

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Buenos Aires, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Buenos Aires, 2005

Sale Date: November 23, 2018

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Nakano (Poster), 1990

Daido Moriyama

Nakano (Poster), 1990

Sale Date: November 23, 2018

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Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: November 1, 2018

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pedantic hysteric

Daido Moriyama

pedantic hysteric

Sale Date: November 3, 2018

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MISAWA

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Sale Date: November 3, 2018

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Works

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: October 27, 2018

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Shashin yo Sayonara [Goodbye Photography, Dear]

Daido Moriyama

Shashin yo Sayonara [Goodbye Photography, Dear]

Sale Date: October 18, 2018

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Nippon Gekijo Shashincho [Japan, A Photo Theater]

Daido Moriyama

Nippon Gekijo Shashincho [Japan, A Photo Theater]

Sale Date: October 18, 2018

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Shibuya (drum majorettes), 1967

Daido Moriyama

Shibuya (drum majorettes), 1967

Sale Date: October 18, 2018

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Daido hysteric no. 8, 1997, 1997

Daido Moriyama

Daido hysteric no. 8, 1997, 1997

Sale Date: October 5, 2018

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WORK SHOP no. 6, 1976, 1976

Daido Moriyama

WORK SHOP no. 6, 1976, 1976

Sale Date: October 5, 2018

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NATIONAL HIGHWAY 1 AT DAWN (Around Kougosho, , 1968

Daido Moriyama

NATIONAL HIGHWAY 1 AT DAWN (Around Kougosho, , 1968

Sale Date: October 5, 2018

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NATIONAL HIGHWAY 1 AT DAWN (Asahi-cho,..., 1968

Daido Moriyama

NATIONAL HIGHWAY 1 AT DAWN (Asahi-cho,..., 1968

Sale Date: October 5, 2018

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Wetlands, 1971, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Wetlands, 1971, 1971

Sale Date: October 5, 2018

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Misawa (Stray dog), 1971, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Misawa (Stray dog), 1971, 1971

Sale Date: September 27, 2018

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Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: September 21, 2018

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Ah Kohya (Ah Wilderness).

Daido Moriyama

Ah Kohya (Ah Wilderness).

Sale Date: September 20, 2018

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Memories of a dog.

Daido Moriyama

Memories of a dog.

Sale Date: September 20, 2018

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The Complete Works.

Daido Moriyama

The Complete Works.

Sale Date: September 20, 2018

Auction Closed

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