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

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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)

Letter to Nakahira Takuma, FIN (Soma), 1988

Daido Moriyama

Letter to Nakahira Takuma, FIN (Soma), 1988

Sale Date: October 26, 2013

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How to Create a Beautiful Picture 12: Summer , 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to Create a Beautiful Picture 12: Summer , 1987

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Record Daido Moriyama×Hajime Sawatari」..., 2007

Hajime Sawatari and Daido Moriyama

Record Daido Moriyama×Hajime Sawatari」..., 2007

Sale Date: October 26, 2013

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Nu de dos

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: October 7, 2013

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Daido Moriyama

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Scène de rue la nuit

Daido Moriyama

Scène de rue la nuit

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Scène de rue le jour

Daido Moriyama

Scène de rue le jour

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Misawa (Stray dog), 1971

Daido Moriyama

Misawa (Stray dog), 1971

Sale Date: October 15, 2013

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How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1986

Daido Moriyama

How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1986

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Untitled (Lips), 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled (Lips), 2007

Sale Date: September 26, 2013

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How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1986

Daido Moriyama

How to create a beautiful picture 6: Tights..., 1986

Sale Date: June 28, 2013

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Untitled, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2007

Sale Date: July 20, 2013

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Work

Daido Moriyama

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Untitled

Daido Moriyama

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How to create a beautiful picture 6: tights..., 1986

Daido Moriyama

How to create a beautiful picture 6: tights..., 1986

Sale Date: May 29, 2013

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Landscape, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Landscape, 2005

Sale Date: June 5, 2013

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Lettre a St. Loup, 1990

Daido Moriyama

Lettre a St. Loup, 1990

Sale Date: May 26, 2013

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Documentary 71 (86 Nakano-ku, Tokyo), 1986

Daido Moriyama

Documentary 71 (86 Nakano-ku, Tokyo), 1986

Sale Date: April 17, 2013

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From Nippon Gekijo (japan Theatre Photo Album), 1968

Daido Moriyama

From Nippon Gekijo (japan Theatre Photo Album), 1968

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

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Untitled, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2007

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Untitled, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2007

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Shinjuku, 1968

Daido Moriyama

Shinjuku, 1968

Sale Date: April 26, 2013

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