Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama (b. 1938, Osaka) first worked as an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe before becoming independent in 1964. In 1968, he published Nippon Gekijō Shashinchō (Japan Theater Photo Album), and in 1972 he published Shashin yo Sayonara (Farewell Photography), which showed the darker sides of urban life and the city. He has had a radical impact on the photographic and art world in both Japan and in the West with his are-bure-boke (“grainy, blurry, out-of-focus”) style of snapshots that defied the conventional rules of photography and chronicled the rapid industrialization of post-war Japan. His works continue to be presented in large scale exhibitions worldwide.