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The influence of Daido Moriyama on photography
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Introduction
Body
1. The leading figure of Japanese photography
2. The main features and peculiarities of Moriyama’s works. Black and white photography
3. Subjects of Moriyama’s pictures
4. Famous works and projects by Daido Moriyama
5. Moriyama’s heritage: critique, exhibitions, series.
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices
Appendices 1
1 The leading figure of Japanese photography
Daido Moriyama was born in Osaka in 1938. He worked as a freelance commercial designer when he was 20. Then Daido Moriyama decided to study photography under Takeji Iwamiya in 1960. In 1961 the photographer moved to Tokyo where he worked as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. Soon Moriyama’s own works were published in a large amount of magazines such as Asahi Camera and Camera Mainichi. Japanese Photo Critics Organization named Moriyama one of the most promising photographers.
Daido Moriyama belongs to the generation of the new avant-garde in Japanese photography, a post-war generation that was deeply shocked by the consequences of the Second World War. Moriyama created his pictures under the influence of this generation. Otherwise, he introduced something new and outstanding in his works. Moriyama’s pictures contain the disappointment of the collapsed traditional values.
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2 The main features and peculiarities of Moriyama’s works. Black and white photography
Since the seventies, he produced thousands of photographs all with the same gist and aesthetics. Moriyama’s approach for strong graphic black and white photography is a style that distinguishes him from the others. He tends to mix light and shadow in a rhythmic, playful way.
Moriyama usually uses a compact 35 mm camera to produce black-and-white prints.
His pictures capture the darker sides of urban life of the Japanese metropolis: the highways of Japan, the seaside, Moriyama's native Osaka, New York. Generally, Moriyama focuses on the following objects: empty dark alleys, overcrowded subway stations, the doorway of a strip club, the neon sign.
Moriyama tends to use black and white colors to create his own perception of this world, despite of a city he depicts. It can be Amsterdam, Tokyo or New York.
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3 Subjects of Moriyama’s pictures
It seems that he is not interested in beauty; they reflect the ordinary lifestyle of the urban city limited in 24 working hours. The main characters of his photos try to make a living in the streets, others come back home after an exhausting night.
Daido Moriyama's photographs take place on the streets. As a skillful and experienced artist he hunters all the endless sequence of fleeting glimpses that the street offers and for more than four decades in recurring narration his pictures display precisely vulnerable characters of the streets that makes possible the unknown, redemptive heroism of ordinary, sometimes even vulgar, gestures [13].
The subjects of the artist’s photographs represent everyday things in the most unusual and surprising way. Moriyama’s characters are often depicted partially; their faces cannot be seen due to the blurred and obscured background.
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4 Famous works and projects by Daido Moriyama
The overwhelming protagonists of Moriyama's pictures are people with no name: strangers standing still or walking away surrounded by a unique, dense halo which only exists because of Moriyama's camera and his conventional way of printing photographs. It is through his unique way of perceiving, taking pictures and printing that enables to understand that loneliness can be tenderness and that collective portraits can be as sweet as they are sad.
Let’s have a look at some of Daido Moriyama’s works (Appendices 1).
1) Legs in fishnets
One day Moriyama was drinking coffee with his girlfriend when he caught a glimpse of her legs in stockings with fishnet tights. Moriyama immediately started taking snapshots.
Most of his works are made on the street; he photographs the cities and people while traveling [4].
2) Stray dog
One of Moriyama’s best-known images is taken in 1971.
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5 Moriyama’s heritage: critique, exhibitions, series.
Moriyama has to be constantly watchful and respond intuitively to a sophisticated, transforming environment. Moriyama strolls along the street like a hunter permanently taking images.
Nobuyoshi Araki said the following about him: «Moriyama takes pictures like a skillful sniper, a ‘hunter of light’. Everything is over in just a few seconds. He is relaxed but never wastes motion. He passes through the streets like the wind, leaving nothing behind but an elusive sense of presence» [25].
During his four-decade career Moriyama has published a lot of photo books. Although Moriyama’s works are popular in Japan, but it is only during the last decade his works has been exhibited abroad.
In 1999 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized a major exhibition that represented nearly 200 black-and-white pictures and a major Polaroid piece that travelled to other North American and European venues.
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Conclusion
Daido Moriyama is an outstanding figure in the world of modern photography. His technique and perception of the world influenced many other contemporary artists. Moriyama’s works are saturated with shambolic and chaotic rhythms of urban areas, contain melancholic moods and simplicity of rural areas, highlight the essential details that reflect the disdainful atmosphere and restlessness of haphazard and discouraging management.
Moriyama’s works are enigmatic and unforgettable; they serve as a manual and brilliant example of black and white photography. Owing to this artist Japan and Tokyo, in particular, acquired a new image so tempting and alluring for other countries. Despite of permanent contrasts in pictures, Moriyama’s works form a map and a guidebook for those who want to plunge into the world and history of Japan.
Oblique and blurred images so incorrect and disrupted as it can be viewed at first become the most detailed and shrewd canvases of contraversions.
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Bibliography
1. Baker, S. Daido Moriyama / S. Baker, M. Shimizu, K. Taki. – UK: Tate, 2013. 224 p.
2. Batdorff, J. Black and White: From Snapshots to Great Shots / J. Batdorff. US: Peachpit Press, 2011. 240 p.
3. Daido Moriyama sizes up to William Klein at The Tate [Электронный ресурс] // uk.phaidon.com: сайт. – Режим доступа: http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/october/11/daido-moriyama-sizes-up-to-william-klein-at-the-tate.
4. Daido Moriyama's best photograph: my girlfriend's legs in fishnets [Электронный ресурс] // theguardian.com: сайт. – Режим доступа: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/oct/03/daido-moriyama-best-photograph.
5. Gibson, D. The Street Photographer's Manual / D. Gibson. UK: Thames & Hudson, 2014. 200 p.
6. Kim, E. Street Photography: 50 Ways to Capture Better Shots of Ordinary Life / E. Kim, J. Steensland. – New York: DEXT, 2015. 44 p.
7. Lewis, G.
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1. Baker, S. Daido Moriyama / S. Baker, M. Shimizu, K. Taki. – UK: Tate, 2013. 224 p.
2. Batdorff, J. Black and White: From Snapshots to Great Shots / J. Batdorff. US: Peachpit Press, 2011. 240 p.
3. Daido Moriyama sizes up to William Klein at The Tate [Электронный ресурс] // uk.phaidon.com: сайт. – Режим доступа: http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/october/11/daido-moriyama-sizes-up-to-william-klein-at-the-tate.
4. Daido Moriyama's best photograph: my girlfriend's legs in fishnets [Электронный ресурс] // theguardian.com: сайт. – Режим доступа: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/oct/03/daido-moriyama-best-photograph.
5. Gibson, D. The Street Photographer's Manual / D. Gibson. UK: Thames & Hudson, 2014. 200 p.
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