Artist
Daido MORIYAMA
森山大道
Born 1938 in Osaka. After working as an assistant for photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, he went independent in 1964. He has been publishing his works in photography magazines among others, and received a New Artist Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association for Japan: A Photo Theater in 1967. Between 1968 and ’70 he was involved in the photo fanzine Provoke, and his style of grainy, high-contrast images that came to be referred to as “are, bure, boke” (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus) made an impact on the realm of photography. Solo shows at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris solidified Moriyama’s worldwide reputation, and in 2012, he became the first Japanese to be awarded in the category of Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Annual Infinity Awards hosted by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. The “William Klein + Daido Moriyama” exhibition together with William Klein at London’s Tate Modern in 2012-13 was a showdown of two immensely popular photographers that took the world by storm.
Publication
UWAJIMA
What Uwajima in Shikoku reminds me of first and foremost is Shinro Ohtake, a contemporary artist who owns a big atelier space in the region, from where he continues to present his works on the international art stage.
Ohtake-san once took me around Uwajima, where I took photos in the streets and the surrounding landscapes, and even though that was long ago, I have fond memories of it that keep coming back to me. A new color photo book is coming out that contains some of those shots, and I’m looking very much forward to that.
– from afterwords by Daido Moriyama
UWAJIMA (Special Edition) A
This is the special edition of the book UWAJIMA with one original print (Archival Pigment Print) included.
Gold and black two-toned cover on silkscreen-printed canvas.
Photobook and print are signed and numbered.
What Uwajima in Shikoku reminds me of first and foremost is Shinro Ohtake, a contemporary artist who owns a big atelier space in the region, from where he continues to present his works on the international art stage.
Ohtake-san once took me around Uwajima, where I took photos in the streets and the surrounding landscapes, and even though that was long ago, I have fond memories of it that keep coming back to me. A new color photo book is coming out that contains some of those shots, and I’m looking very much forward to that.
– from afterwords by Daido Moriyama
UWAJIMA (Special Edition) B
This is the special edition of the book UWAJIMA with one original print (Archival Pigment Print) included.
Gold and black two-toned cover on silkscreen-printed canvas.
Photobook and print are signed and numbered.
What Uwajima in Shikoku reminds me of first and foremost is Shinro Ohtake, a contemporary artist who owns a big atelier space in the region, from where he continues to present his works on the international art stage.
Ohtake-san once took me around Uwajima, where I took photos in the streets and the surrounding landscapes, and even though that was long ago, I have fond memories of it that keep coming back to me. A new color photo book is coming out that contains some of those shots, and I’m looking very much forward to that.
– from afterwords by Daido Moriyama
UWAJIMA (Special Edition) C
This is the special edition of the book UWAJIMA with one original print (Archival Pigment Print) included.
Gold and black two-toned cover on silkscreen-printed canvas.
Photobook and print are signed and numbered.
What Uwajima in Shikoku reminds me of first and foremost is Shinro Ohtake, a contemporary artist who owns a big atelier space in the region, from where he continues to present his works on the international art stage.
Ohtake-san once took me around Uwajima, where I took photos in the streets and the surrounding landscapes, and even though that was long ago, I have fond memories of it that keep coming back to me. A new color photo book is coming out that contains some of those shots, and I’m looking very much forward to that.
– from afterwords by Daido Moriyama