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)

Shinjuku, 1991

Daido Moriyama

Shinjuku, 1991

Sale Date: November 10, 2023

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Untitled, 2000

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2000

Sale Date: December 1, 2023

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Untitled, 2000

Daido Moriyama

Untitled, 2000

Sale Date: December 1, 2023

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Tights, 1987-2011, 1987–2011

Daido Moriyama

Tights, 1987-2011, 1987–2011

Sale Date: November 9, 2023

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Hawaii, 2006, 2006

Daido Moriyama

Hawaii, 2006, 2006

Sale Date: November 18, 2023

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Eros or something other than Eros, 1969

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Eros or something other than Eros, 1969

Sale Date: November 4, 2023

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BUENOS AIRES, 2005

Daido Moriyama

BUENOS AIRES, 2005

Sale Date: November 4, 2023

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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 4, 2023

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Stray Dog,Misawa,1971, 1971

Daido Moriyama

Stray Dog,Misawa,1971, 1971

Sale Date: October 19, 2023

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Matsushima, 1974

Daido Moriyama

Matsushima, 1974

Sale Date: October 19, 2023

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Bicycles, from the series Hysteric., 1991

Daido Moriyama

Bicycles, from the series Hysteric., 1991

Sale Date: October 5, 2023

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Various Works, c. 1990, 1990

Daido Moriyama

Various Works, c. 1990, 1990

Sale Date: October 3, 2023

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: September 16, 2023

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Hawaii, 2007

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: September 16, 2023

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Hunter

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Sale Date: September 9, 2023

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Untitled from Kiroku - Record No.6 (Motorcycle)

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Untitled from Kiroku - Record No.6 (Motorcycle)

Sale Date: August 8, 2023

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How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6 (from..., 1987

Daido Moriyama

How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6 (from..., 1987

Sale Date: July 12, 2023

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Nagisa, 2010, 2010

Daido Moriyama

Nagisa, 2010, 2010

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

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Dog, 2004, 2004

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Dog, 2004, 2004

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

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Tono, 2014, 2014

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Tono, 2014, 2014

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

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Rose, 1984

Daido Moriyama

Sale Date: June 29, 2023

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LA MORT EN ETE, 2020

Daido Moriyama

LA MORT EN ETE, 2020

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

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Tights, 1987, 1987

Daido Moriyama

Tights, 1987, 1987

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

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Nippon Gekijo Shashincho, 1968

Daido Moriyama

Nippon Gekijo Shashincho, 1968

Sale Date: May 31, 2023

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