DAIDO MORIYAMA 森山大道

Through a career of almost sixty years, Daido Moriyama has consistently challenged the conventions of photography.

The Osaka-born photographer has prolifically documented the world around him, challenging the role of cameras, print
media, and how we circulate and consume images. This radical approach was shaped by his upbringing in postwar Japan,
a society that saw rapid transformation following its defeat in the war and seven years of General Headquarters, Supreme
Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ) occupation that followed. Forming his craft through these critical decades, and influenced by American artists such as Andy Warhol, William Klein and Jack Kerouac, Moriyama used his photography to think about the representation of reality, truth and fiction, memory and history.

This philosophical approach remains deeply contemporary.
In spring, KYOTOGRAPHIE will present a comprehensive survey of Moriyama's oeuvre, adapted from a lauded retrospective curated by Thyago Nogueira at lnstituto Moreira Salles (Brazil) and also presented at C/0 Berlin, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Fotografia Europea (Italy), Photo Elysee (Switzerland) and The Photographer's Gallery in London, where it was chosen by The Guardian as the best photo show of the year. This new rendition is specifically curated for KYOTOGRAPHIE at the coveted Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art. Nogueira is planning a special focus on the countless magazines and publications that have defined Moriyama's artistic life: the photo essays from which many of his most iconic images originate, his contribution to the legendary Provoke magazine, and the radical proposition of his epochal photobook Farewell Photography (1972).

The exhibition was created with the support of Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation and the consultancy of Yutaka Kambayashi, Satoshi Machiguchi, and Kazuya Kimura.