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23/10/2013

Daido Moriyama

Documenta-Halle, Kassel

Daido Moriyama is one of the most important living photographers and photobook makers of current times. His career began during the sixties in Tokyo, where he became a member of the influential Provoke group that created the most important style of Japanese post-war avantgarde photography.

His oeuvre plays a central part in the establishment of Japanese photography as one of the important creative developments in the history of photography. In more than 50 years, Moriyama gained fame through his coarse, contrastrich, partly un- focussed and highly grainy black-and-white photography, in which he deals which urban experiences, especially around the streets of Tokyo. His immense influence on young Japa- nese artists continues to date. Apart from B+W photography, Moriyama works with color, Polaroid’s, screen-printing, film, texts and installation. His fame is predominantly due to the more than 150 photobooks that he has continuously published – including masterpieces like »Japan – A Photo Theatre« (1968), »Farewell Photography« (1972), »Light and Shadow« (1982) and »Shinjuku« (2002).

The festival pays homage to Moriyama’s book opus through numerous program items, events and releases.

Daido Book Show
The »Daido Book Show« will form the center of the festival. This is an exhibition of all of Daido Moriyama’s books published so far where festival visitors will be able to view and touch these books. Rare or out-of-print books will be available as reprints, while all still available editions will be shown as originals.

Daido Walls
Inside the big documenta-Halle Kassel, the festival will show largesized Daido Moriyama prints. The print show is related to one of Moriyama’s photobook classics.

Daido Factory
Visitors can join the Daido Factory and compose their own Daido Magazine or select a big sized Daido Print. Both will be signed by Daido Moriyama.

Daido Book Studies
The exhibition »Photobookstudies # The Daido Books« will pay tribute to the book work of Moriyama with a new kind of display. After Studies on Ed van der Elsken and Stephen Shore shown in Paris, Hannover and Cologne, the german photobook specialist and curator Markus Schaden continues on all Daido books from »Japan – A Photo Theatre« up to »Menu«!

On Daido
The volume »On Daido« will be a photographic anthology of statements and homages to Daido Moriyama made by internationally well-known photographers and authors.
This publication in its special form will be exclusively available during the 6th Fotobookfes- tival.

Japanese Photobooks 15 × 15
Pecha Kucha-style presentations from publishers, book-makers, photographers, curators, bloggers ... about their favorite contemporary Japanese photobooks.

International Photobook Dummy Award 2013
486 photobook dummies were entered to the Photobook Dummy Award 2013. The 55 short- listed books will be displayed in Kassel finally after their exhibitions in Milan, Dublin and Paris. The first 3 prizes will be given in Kassel. The first prize will be a complete book pro- duction and a presentation in the German art magazin European Photography.

Golden Gai Bar | Tokyo 80
The Japanese Bar Lounge: Drinks, Food, Sake and Music – powered by Markus Schaden.

And more ...
Beside the presentation of the books of the annual festival award »Experts Best Photobook« there will be be panels, book signings, on-site productions and further festival events.

The complete programme is on the web site.

Documenta-Halle‎
Du-Ry-Straße 1 - 34117 Kassel

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