Daido Moriyama

Los Angeles

Photographer Daido Moriyama first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely personal photographic approach often incorporates high contrast, graininess, and tilted vantages to convey the fragmentary nature of modern realities.

Fracture: Daido Moriyama presents a range of the artist’s renowned black-and-white photographs, exemplifying the radical aesthetic of are, bure, boke (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus), as well as the debut of recent color work taken in Tokyo. A selection of his photo books highlights the artist’s highly influential experimentation with reproduction media and the transformative possibilities of the printed page. In total, Moriyama’s achievements convey the artist’s boldly intuitive exploration of urban mystery, memory, and photographic invention.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

April 7th – July 31st, 2012
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA

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