Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibitions @Tokyo

MORIYAMA Daido Exhibition I. RETROSPECTIVE 1965-2005
MORIYAMA Daido Exhibition II.HAWAII

May 13(Tue)-June 29(Sun)

TOKYO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

http://www.syabi.com/index_eng.shtml

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is pleased to announce that it will be holding a two-part exhibition of the work of MORIYAMA Daido, under the titles: ‘Ⅰ. RETROSPECTIVE 1965-2005’ and ‘Ⅱ. HAWAII’.
MORIYAMA Daido started work as a freelance photographer in 1963, publishing his ‘Yokosuka’ series in the ‘Camera Mainichi’ monthly magazine in 1965. He continued to publish work in various photographic magazines, the high-contrast, grainy images he produced during the sixties and seventies being criticized as ‘coarse, camera-shaken and blurred’, but they were to cause a revolution in the Japanese photographic world. Forever questioning the meaning of photography, all his photographic series – his early, ‘Japan, A Photo Theater’ (1968), the controversial ‘Farewell Photography’ (1972), which examined photographic expression, ‘Light and Shadow’ (1982) which marked his comeback after a creative slump, and his latest, ‘Hawaii’ (2007) – all attracted great attention.

by Yas at Tue May 13 07:28:37 UTC 2008 (ed. May 13 2008) Tokyo, Japan | Bookmark this | Digg this |

13 May 2008 00:05

Hi Yas
Thanks for this, do you happen to know if this is going to be a traveling exhibition? It looks like a great show

by Brian David Stevens | 13 May 2008 07:05 | London, United Kingdom |

god, i hope it travels to n.america…...

if there were 1 photographer in the world i’d drop almost all work/drinking/time to see, it’d be moriayama…..

feverish….hoping at least they’ll be a cataloge available here…

thanks for posting….

by Bob Black | 13 May 2008 10:05 | Toronto, Canada |

Hi Brian,
Hope the exhibition will go around the world. IT IS REALLY GREAT!

Hi Bob,
No catalog published this time, but the book will be published on the 23rd this month.
The title is “MORIYAMA daido” from Tankosya publishing, ISBN is 978-4-473-03516-5.

http://www.syabi.com/details/daido_eng.html

Maybe, I should talk to Dashwood Books in NYC to sell the book, it’s in Japanese otherwise.
http://www.dashwoodbooks.com/index.cfm

by Yas | 13 May 2008 11:05 | Tokyo, Japan |

Thanks Yas

oh and bob, there’s a couple of new Anders Petersen books out in the next two months, city diaries and french kiss, dunno if you’re into Petersen but I suspect you are!

by Brian David Stevens | 13 May 2008 11:05 | London, United Kingdom |

Yas! :))

thanks so much…since my birthday is in 4 days, i expect to order myself a new gift! ;)))...can never have enough of his books….if not, i’ll check with dashwood later in the summer! )))

Brian: :))...yes, like Peterson mucho….he had some pics here last year as part of a group VU show, which broke the heart ;))

cheers
running
bob

by Bob Black | 13 May 2008 11:05 | Toronto, Canada |

very exciting..looking forward to seeing the work in person..

bob!! b’day!!

by erica mcdonald | 13 May 2008 13:05 | New York, United States |

Excellent, I’m in Tokyo at the moment!

by Dave Walsh | 13 May 2008 15:05 | Tokyo, Japan |

Those of you in New York City or in North America for that matter, can take advantage of a Japanese book store in the City. Here is the link to Kinokuniya

Scroll down for the address and the phone number of the main store there.

by Tomoko Yamamoto | 13 May 2008 16:05 (ed. May 13 2008) | Baltimore, MD, United States |