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)

Shashin yo Sayonara -- Bye Bye Photography..., 1972

Daido Moriyama

Shashin yo Sayonara -- Bye Bye Photography..., 1972

Sale Date: April 10, 2008

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Nippon Gekijo Shashincho -- Japan. A Photo..., 1968

Daido Moriyama

Nippon Gekijo Shashincho -- Japan. A Photo..., 1968

Sale Date: April 10, 2008

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Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: October 5, 2012

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Work (set of 3)

Daido Moriyama

Work (set of 3)

Sale Date: September 28, 2012

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Buenos Aires, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Buenos Aires, 2005

Sale Date: June 30, 2012

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Buenos Aires, 2005

Daido Moriyama

Buenos Aires, 2005

Sale Date: June 8, 2012

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Poster (Nakano)

Daido Moriyama

Poster (Nakano)

Sale Date: June 8, 2012

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Shinjuku, 2001–2002

Daido Moriyama

Shinjuku, 2001–2002

Sale Date: May 22, 2012

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Bye-bye polaroid: 140/207/471/504 (4 works), 2008

Daido Moriyama

Bye-bye polaroid: 140/207/471/504 (4 works), 2008

Sale Date: April 25, 2012

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Flower, From the Series Light and Shadow, 1981

Daido Moriyama

Flower, From the Series Light and Shadow, 1981

Sale Date: May 30, 2012

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A silhouette in the night, 2000

Daido Moriyama

A silhouette in the night, 2000

Sale Date: May 17, 2012

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Selected Images (5 works), 1997

Daido Moriyama

Selected Images (5 works), 1997

Sale Date: May 17, 2012

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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 16, 2012

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Dark of the sun, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Dark of the sun, 2007

Sale Date: April 24, 2012

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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: April 3, 2012

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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: March 8, 2012

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Kuchibiru (Black), 2007

Daido Moriyama

Kuchibiru (Black), 2007

Sale Date: March 8, 2012

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Kuchibiru (Red), 2007

Daido Moriyama

Kuchibiru (Red), 2007

Sale Date: March 8, 2012

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Untitled (Eros or something other than Eros), 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled (Eros or something other than Eros), 2007

Sale Date: March 9, 2012

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Hat (from Light and shadow series), 2006

Daido Moriyama

Hat (from Light and shadow series), 2006

Sale Date: March 9, 2012

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Northern, 2008

Daido Moriyama

Northern, 2008

Sale Date: February 1, 2012

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Untitled

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: December 3, 2011

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A journey to Nakaji 1, 1984

Daido Moriyama

A journey to Nakaji 1, 1984

Sale Date: December 19, 2011

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Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: December 19, 2011

Auction Closed

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