Daido Moriyama
Eros or something other than Eros, 1969
signed and numbered (on the reverse)
gelatin-silver print (black oak frame)
25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Edition of 150
Eros or something other than Eros, 1969
signed and numbered (on the reverse)
gelatin-silver print (black oak frame)
25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Edition of 150
Eros or something other than Eros, 1969
signed and numbered (on the reverse)
gelatin-silver print (black oak frame)
25.4 x 20.3 cm.
Edition of 150
“I have always felt that the world is an erotic place. As I walk through it my senses are reaching out. And I am drawn to all sorts of things. For me cities are enormous bodies of people’s desires. And as I search for my own desires within them, I slice into time, seeing the moment. Thats the kind of camera work I like.”
Legendary Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) has been at the forefront of the medium for more than fifty years. As a co-founder of Provoke magazine in the late 1960s, he helped launch a movement that fundamentally reshaped postwar Japanese photography. Moriyama has since become one of the world’s most recognized photographers, inspiring generations of image-makers.
Shooting predominantly on the streets of Tokyo with a small, handheld camera, Moriyama’s signature grainy and blurry black-and-white photographs explore themes of urban street life, intimacy, pattern, and light.
Over the course of his career, Moriyama has published over 150 books and has won important awards such as the Infinity Award (Lifetime Achievement) from the International Center of Photography in New York (2012) and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2019).
Recent solo exhibitions a showing of recent works the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.