Record no 18
by
Daido Moriyama
Stray Dog by Daido Moriyama
Condition:
Near fine
Publisher:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1999
Pages:
160
Format:
Hardback, 1st edition
Stage actors and stray dogs. High-rises and cherry blossoms. The diversity of moods, angles, and startling configurations which populate the images of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) are a testament to thirty-five years of work at the forefront of his medium. This important book provides a crucial overview of an artist whose pioneering work prefigures much current cutting-edge photography. Originally trained as a designer, Moriyama saw William Klein's book New York and a catalogue of photographs by Andy Warhol early in his career. From Klein and Warhol he learned to appreciate the harsh contrast and coarse half-tone effects of cheap publishing, raised to a positive aesthetic level. Other influences included writer Jack Kerouac, the inspiration for a seminal series of photos he took while travelling the highways near Tokyo. He was also connected to dramatist Shuji Terayama, the Artaud of Japan, whose use of vaudevillian concepts parallels Moriyama's fascination with society's underworld. Features text in English by Sandra S. Phillips and Alexandra Munroe.
Fine copy with obi. Faint musty odour.
£ 120.00 In stock
