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Daidō Moriyama

1938 - Today

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Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō; born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke. Moriyama began his career as an assistant to photographer Eikoh Hosoe, a co-founder of the avant-garde photo cooperative Vivo, and made his mark with his first photobook Japan: A Photo Theater, published in 1968. His formative work in the 1960s boldly captured the darker qualities of urban life in postwar Japan in rough, unfettered fashion, filtering the rawness of human experience through sharply tilted angles, grained textures, harsh contrast, and blurred movements through the photographer's wandering gaze. Many of his well-known works from the 1960s and 1970s are read through the lenses of post-war reconstruction and post-Occupation cultural upheaval. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Daidō Moriyama is the 46th most popular photographer (up from 50th in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from Japan (up from 777th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Daidō Moriyama ranks 46 out of 148. Before him are David Bailey, Berenice Abbott, Lewis Hine, Andreas Gursky, Jan Saudek, and Philippe Halsman. After him are Inge Morath, Gisèle Freund, Edward Weston, Claude Cahun, Jacques Henri Lartigue, and Paul Strand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Daidō Moriyama ranks 186. Before him are Heino, Larry Scott, Ahmed Jibril, Wu Yi, Lill-Babs, and Amfilohije Radović. After him are Igor Sergeyev, Götz George, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Mohammed Gammoudi, Chuan Leekpai, and Antonio Maria Vegliò.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Daidō Moriyama ranks 770 out of 6,245. Before him are Gosho Aoyama (1963), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Masateru Akita (1982), Motoori Norinaga (1730), Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), and Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662). After him are Soga no Umako (551), Prince Kan'in Kotohito (1865), Satoru Nakajima (1953), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kazuyoshi Nakamura (1955), and Shigenori Tōgō (1882).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among photographers born in Japan, Daidō Moriyama ranks 2. Before him are Nobuyoshi Araki (1940). After him are Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), and Kishin Shinoyama (1940).

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