Widely considered Japan's most influential and prolific photographer Daido Moriyama has been
challenging conventions of the art form for more than a half century. This exhaustive and
electrifying retrospective published in cooperation with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and
based on entirely new research looks at every stage of Moriyama's extensive career including
his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography. One of
a generation of postwar Japan's groundbreaking artists Moriyama has continually established
his own visual grammar. This book features more than 190 chronologically arranged images that
reveal his constantly evolving career: his early editorial work of the mid-1960s focused on
the American occupation and the experimental theater his radical experimentation of late 1960s
and the 1970s the self-reflexive photos of the 1980s and 1990s and his ongoing exploration of
cities among other relevant moments. It also includes more than 400 spreads from Moriyama's
rarely seen publications mapping the sources of his visual production. Rounding out the volume
are texts by the editor and leading Japanese scholars a personal essay by the artist and a
full chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition on Moriyama's output this
impressive volume reframes Moriyama's legacy and is certain to become the definitive
publication on his work.
