Daido Moriyama
dal 11/2/2004 al 17/4/2004
Segnalato da
Fifty one Fine Art Photography
11/2/2004
Daido Moriyama
Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
Transit. The show will feature works from the serie 'Transit' (taken between 1997-2000), which will be shown for the first time. When Daido Moriyama visited the US several times to prepare his touring exhibition (starting from Los Angeles) he took photographs for himself.
Fifty One Fine Art Photography is pleased to present Daido Moriyama's
first belgian show . The show will feature works from the serie
'Transit' (taken between 1997-2000), which will be shown for the first
time . When Daido Moriyama visited the US several times to prepare his
touring exhibition (starting from Los Angeles) he took photographs for
himself.
Daido Moriyama is considered one of the leading figures of Japanese
Photography today. Born outside of Osaka in 1938, trained as a graphic
designer, he began work as a free-lance industrial designer in 1958.
In the course of his work, he visited the photo studios of Takeji
Iwamiya and became so fascinated with the world of photography that he
decided to give up design and serve as an apprentice in the studio. In
1961, he moved to Tokyo and got a job working as the assistant of Eikoh
Hosoe, the first internationally recognized photographer of his
generation in Japan. Moriyama found himself to be most profoundly
influenced by Japanese photographers Shomei Tomatsu and Eikoh Hosoe.
Like Tomatsu, Moriyama was fascinated by the bizarre underworld of
Japanese street life and trough his collaboration with Hosoe, he drew a
sense of the theatrical and the erotic.
Moriyama's vision was also enriched by his acquaintance with the work of
two American photographers: William Klein and Robert Frank. These
photographers did not hesitate to move in close to their subjects, using
their small hand-held cameras like guns made to shoot on any number of
moving targets. Like them, Moriyama practiced a new, more
action-oriented street photography.
Although Daido Moriyama has enjoyed important retrospectives in the
United States and Japan, there have been few opportunities to view his
work in Europe.
Moriyama had an exhibition in The Fondation Cartier pour l'art
contemporain in November 2003.
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