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DAIDO MORIYAMA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 28, 2021
Daido Moriyama documentary brings the photographer’s legacy into focus
A new film by Gen Iwama centered around reproducing photographer Daido Moriyama's out-of-print book from 1968 captures a master unconcerned with reliving past glories.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
Tokyo: photogenic to its very core
Care to take a guess what the new exhibition "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it's "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo" and "Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
Japan's TOP museum sees the big picture
After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo's best-known photography museum in Tokyo's fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new name in English: the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, or TOP Museum for short.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 20, 2016
Does ‘Provoke’ still push back today?
The year 1968 saw a wide range of actions directed against the Japanese government: Universities were occupied, protesters demonstrated en masse against Japan's complicity in the Vietnam War and students mobilized to stop the transportation of Vietnam-bound jet fuel through Shinjuku Station. A quieter, though equally radical, event could be added to this list: the publication of a slim, independent magazine of photography and essays called Provoke.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 19, 2016
'Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition'
Jan. 23-Feb. 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 1, 2015
'Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists at Idem Paris: A Lithography Studio in Montparnasse'
Dec. 5-Feb. 7
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 27, 2013
What provoked Japan's contemporary photography?
In 1968, as the world reeled from The Prague Spring, the turbulent union and student strikes in France, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Japan, like so many other nations, found itself in the midst of social unrest. Citizens questioned the West's involvement in the Vietnam War, and as the nation's close relationship with the United States became strained, public resentment of U.S. military bases spread. Antiwar and antibase protests compounded domestic political turmoil as students fought university reforms and corruption, locals protested the construction of Narita International Airport, and other regional struggles dotted the nation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 13, 2013
Observing the present and past is to see into the future
For the past 48 years, Daido Moriyama has followed his photographic instinct, drawn to subjects whose characters appear as vibrant as they are tragic while leaving the question of which for us to decide. The act of exhibiting, through the unraveling of images, has charted this one man's continuous urban exploration, which after nearly five decades is still going strong. As the title of this latest show at Gallery 916 suggests "1965~" is an open-ended invitation to visit a very particular place of extremely subjective representation — though on closer inspection, that place may, in fact, be somewhere very different.

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