Photo Exhibition
Daido Moriyama
Gallery Negative
Softcover
Edition 63/200
32 pages
150 x 200 mm
2024
This catalogue was printed as part of an exhibition on the world-famous photographer Daido Moriyama at Gallery Negative in Busan, South Korea, from August 21st to September 29th 2024. This was the first solo exhibition in Korea, with Gallery Negative exclusively presenting a selection of 40 invaluable large vintage prints (20x24inch) from Daido Moriyama’s works. On September 21st, the owner of PLACE M, Seto Masato, hosted a talk at Gallery Negative on behalf of Daido Moriyama
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About the Artist
Daido Moriyama is a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational, black-and-white images that depict the contrast between 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 live and work in Tokyo, Japan. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among others.
https://www.moriyamadaido.com/en/
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About the Publisher
Negative Gallery is a gallery space and publisher based in Busan, South Korea.
