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

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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)

Yokosuka, 1972

Daido Moriyama

Yokosuka, 1972

Sale Date: December 19, 2011

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Sin título, 2004

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Sin título, 2004

Sale Date: November 24, 2011

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Sin título, 2004

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Sin título, 2004

Sale Date: November 24, 2011

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Sin título, 2004

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Sin título, 2004

Sale Date: November 24, 2011

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Sin título, 2004

Daido Moriyama

Sin título, 2004

Sale Date: November 24, 2011

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Untitled, 1969

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 1969

Sale Date: November 11, 2011

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Untitled (Eros or something other than Eros), 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled (Eros or something other than Eros), 2007

Sale Date: November 10, 2011

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Daido hysteric no. 8, 1997

Daido Moriyama

Daido hysteric no. 8, 1997

Sale Date: November 17, 2011

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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: November 12, 2011

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Eyeball, 1986

Daido Moriyama

Eyeball, 1986

Sale Date: November 12, 2011

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Motorcycle, 2008

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Motorcycle, 2008

Sale Date: November 5, 2011

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Sun Flowers, 1988

Daido Moriyama

Sun Flowers, 1988

Sale Date: October 27, 2011

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Brigitte Bardot poster, Aoyama, 1969

Daido Moriyama

Brigitte Bardot poster, Aoyama, 1969

Sale Date: November 3, 2011

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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: November 3, 2011

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Kagerou (bk., 1972

Daido Moriyama

Kagerou (bk., 1972

Sale Date: October 25, 2011

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Hands da Kyoku/erotica, 1969

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Hands da Kyoku/erotica, 1969

Sale Date: October 25, 2011

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Dog town (from Searching journeys 3), 1971

Daido Moriyama

Dog town (from Searching journeys 3), 1971

Sale Date: October 18, 2011

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Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray dog, Misawa, 1971

Sale Date: October 6, 2011

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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: October 6, 2011

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How to create a beautiful picture 11, 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to create a beautiful picture 11, 1987

Sale Date: October 4, 2011

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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: October 4, 2011

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Yokosuka

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: September 10, 2011

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Stray dog

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: September 10, 2011

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Untitled, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2007

Sale Date: July 22, 2011

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