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Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō[1], 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.[2] 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. Moriyama continued to experiment with the representative possibilities offered by the camera in his 19

Daidō Moriyama - Wikipedia Daidō Moriyama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama Moriyama, Tokyo, 2010 Born Hiromichi Moriyama ( 1938-10-10 ) October 10, 1938 (age 87) Ikeda , Osaka , Japan Known for Photography Notable work Japan: A Photo Theatre, Farewell Photography, Stray Dog, Tights Earlier, well-informed Japanese publications give \"Hiromichi Moriyama\" as the romanized form of his name. One example is ''Shashinka hyakunin: Kao to shashin'' ({{nihongo2|写真家100人 顔と写真}}, ''100 Photographers: Profiles and Photographs''), a

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