Daido Moriyama Research

Daido Moriyama Research

Daido, one of the most revered living in Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama's work is saturated with pure beauty of life at its most ordinary. His photographs epitomize Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection. Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the discarded and finds echoes of living through the break down of the traditional value in the post-war Japan.

Daido draws influences from Atget and Weegee as well as William Klein and Warhol, comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.
Moriyama's output since 1968 is legendary. He was produced over 150 books of his photographs. He had over 100 solo exhibitions. In the U.S he was a central figure in MoMa's ground breaking 1974 new Japanese photograph and in 1999 SFMoMA organized and exhibited the retrospective Daido Moriyama stray dog which was also shown at the metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in NEW YORK.