Yoshihiko Ueda, photographer, selected and edited 106 images of Daido's photographs taken from 1964, the year that Daido Moriyama started his career as a photographer, until now.
For Moriyama, the city was a single vast object of desire, and the world something that loomed erotically. 106 images trace the career of a photographer who sought in each moment his own desire and never ceased questioning in a radical manner "What is photography?"
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Gallery 916 where Yoshihiko Ueda opened in 2012.
1938年、大阪生まれ。高校在学中に商業デザイン会社に勤め、その後グラフィックデザイナーとして独立。1960年22歳のとき、写真家・岩宮武二との 出逢いをきっかけに、写真の世界へ飛び込む。翌年には上京し、細江英公のアシスタントを経て、1964年に写真家として独立。以後、『カメラ毎日』や『ア サヒグラフ』『アサヒカメラ』などの写真雑誌を舞台に作品を発表し続け、1967年『にっぽん劇場』で日本写真批評家協会新人賞を受賞。
代表作に『写真よさようなら』(72)、『光と影』(82)、『Daido-hysteric』（93-97）、『新宿』(02) など。昨年末にはロンドンにあるTate Modernで『William Klein + Daido Moriyama』展を行うなど、日本のみならず世界中で精力的に活動し続けている。
Born 1938 in Osaka. Worked at a commercial design company while attending high school, and then as a freelance graphic designer. Prompted by meeting the photographer Takeji Iwamiya, Moriyama plunged into the world photography in 1960, at the age of 22. He set off for Tokyo the following year, and after working as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe, established himself as an independent photographer in 1964. His works appeared successively in photo magazines the likes of Camera Mainichi, AsahiGraph, and Asahi Camera, and in 1967, he received the New Artist Award from the Japan Photo-Critics Association for Japan: A Photo Theater.
Among his best-known photography collections are Farewell Photography (1972), Light and Shadow (1982), Daido-hysteric (1993-97), and Shinjuku (2002). He remains tirelessly active shooting and showing around the world, as evidenced in his recent exhibition "William Klein + Daido Moriyama" at Tate Modern, London.
"Visceral sensation"--the most primordial of the various human senses. This book, is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, features 13 artists from Japan and abroad who tune into the voices of life within us, speak to them, and induce new perceptual awakenings. Their works employing wide-ranging media will create a place for pondering sensations, perceptions, and emotions related to our primordial physical embodiment, and for reconnecting with the life rhythms resonating quietly in our organs, the axis of our physical being.
Included artists:
Louise BOURGEOIS / CHO Shinta / Nathalie DJURBERG & Hans BERG / KATO Izumi / KUSAMA Yayoi / Ana MENDIETA / AKAGAWA Yukio / Saskia OLDE WOLBERS / OLTA / Pipilotti RIST / SHIGA Lieko / Bill VIOLA / WATANABE Kikuma
Born in 1974, OSAKA Japan 1995 "Konica Introducing New Generation Photographers", Grand Prix 1999 Published "SHANGHAI RYUUGI" (Mole Press) 2000 "Photographic Societyof Japan Awards", Newcomer's Award 2001 Published "RUSH" (Littlemore) 2013 38th Kimura Ihee Photography Award
By recognizing the uncertain world, I find the existence of "I".
By finding the uncertain existence of "I", I recognize the world again.
In order to recognize something hard to do, I take photographs.
July24, 2012 OKADA Atsushi
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"The World" could be viewed in a number of different ways. On the one hand, it's a response to the events of the disasters that rocked Japan in 2011, while at the same time it functions as a kind of personal diary of the photographer. Perhaps it's best understood in terms of other photographic production happening in contemporary Japan, which values a highly personal expression over a clarity of concept: in a very lyrical, abstract way, Okada is attempting to express the unexpressable. There's a focus on nature throughout the book, as well as photographs of areas affected by the tsunami of 2011, and it seems fair to say that in the wake of the Great Tohoku Earthquake, Okada is questioning the relationship between humans and nature. These photographs of natural phenomena are interspersed with studio images of women in various states of undress, but it's difficult to say that they are meant to represent unconditional "beauty." Okada is not trying to present a simple statement about "The World." Instead, he recognizes the difficulties in his subject, and has incorporated them into his own work.
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, 1979.
Graduated from the Osaka University of Arts, Department of Photography in 2003.
2005 Completed Graduate School of Arts, the Tokyo Polytechnic University. Earned M.A degree
2008 Completed Graduate School of Arts, the Tokyo Polytechnic University. Earned Ph.D. [Dissertation : Wrist Cut -A photographic exploration of identity-]
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2002 Fuji Photo Salon the New Face Prize
2008 the 33rd Kimura Ihei Photography Award
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