Daido Moriyama. The World through my Eyes.

A broad monograph devoted to Daido Moriyama, one of the pre-eminent names in contemporary Japanese photography along with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu.
Provoke is the title of the magazine founded in 1968 by a group of Japanese photographers, graphic designers, poets, critics, and political activists.
Moriyama's photography is indeed provocative, both for the form it takes (dirty, blurry, overexposed, or scratched) and for its content. The viewer's experience of the photo-whether it captures a place, a person, a situation, or an atmosphere-is the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artist's emotions.
Key Sales Information - The approximately 250 images sketch out an original perspective on Japanese society, especially during the period from the 1950s to the '70s.
- An outstanding summary of the best projects Moriyama has pursued, in a richly printed volume.
Authors Daido Moriyama, born in Osaka, moved to Tokyo in 1960 to join the eminent photographers' group VIVO. Since then he has collaborated with many prominent Japanese photographers, including Eikoh Hosoe and Noboyushi Araki, and considered one of the most important and influential living photographers in the world.
Filippo Maggia teaches History of Contemporary Photography and Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Turin. He collaborates with art journals both in Italy and abroad.