This comprehensive retrospective chronicles the career of Daido Moriyama, a pivotal figure in Japanese photography, renowned for challenging artistic conventions. It explores his work from the mid-1960s, capturing the American occupation and experimental theater, through radical experiments in the late 1960s and 1970s, to self-reflexive photography in the 1980s and 1990s, and his ongoing urban explorations. Featuring over 250 images and 400 reproductions of rare publications, the book includes essays by Japanese scholars and a personal essay by Moriyama. This volume accompanies a major exhibition, providing an in-depth look at Moriyama’s legacy and visual evolution.
