Daido Tokyo

Daido Tokyo

• Photography book by Daido Moriyama

<p><strong>A monograph on the inimitable Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, including never-before-published color photographs</strong></p> Daido Moriyama (born 1938 in Ikeda, Japan) invented a new visual language with his work beginning in the mid-1960s. Frenetic and tormented, it depicted a reality that was grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus. Witness to the spectacular changes that trans-formed postwar Japan, his photographs express the contradictions in a country where age-old traditions persist within a modern society. Often blurred, taken from vertiginous angles, or overwhelmed by close-ups, they show a proximity to and a particular relationship with the subject.<br /><br /> Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, <em>Daido Tokyo</em> includes many previously unpublished photographs (as well as those featured in the exhibition), and an interview with the artist. 150 color photographs