Daido Moriyama: (E) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849761396 ISBN 13: 9781849761390

Verlag: Tate Publishing, 2012

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Book by Simon Baker Minoru Shimizu Koji Taki

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Reseña del editor:

*Daido Moriyama emerged from the Provoke movement of the 1960s, which challenged, primarily through its publications, the rigid artistic formalities of the Japanese photographic scene at that time, he created highly innovative and intensely personal work, often depicting what he saw as the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. *Born in 1938 in Osaka, Moriyama moved to Tokyo in 1961. He became a fully-fledged freelance photographer in 1964: among his early influences were his contemporary Shomei Tomatsu, as well as the work of William Klein in New York, Andy Warhol's silkscreened newspaper images, and the writings of Jack Kerouac. His pictures, are characterised by a gritty, high contrast black-and-white aesthetic, or 'are, bure, boke' (grainy, blurry, out-of-focus), concentrate on the little-seen parts of the city and the fragmentary nature of modern realities. This book, the only survey of Moriyama's work currently available in English, includes an introduction by Simon Baker, Curator of Photography at Tate, and two newly translated texts on the artist: 'The Myth of the City' by Koji Taki; and 'Reconsidering "Grainy, Blurry, Out-of-focus"' by Minoru Shimizu which was first published in Moriyama's seminal photobook Farewell Photography, and translated into English here for the first time. Produced to coincide with the William Klein + Daido Moriyama show at Tate Modern, this book provides not just an exhibition publication, but an essential monograph on a true benchmark figure of modern photography.

Biografía del autor:

Simon Baker is curator of photography at Tate.

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• Verlag: Tate Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849761396
• ISBN 13: 9781849761390
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Baker Simon