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Daidō Moriyama

1938 - Today

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Daidō Moriyama (Japanese: 森山 大道, Hepburn: Moriyama Daidō, 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daidō Moriyama has received more than 290,629 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Daidō Moriyama is the 50th most popular photographer (down from 38th in 2019), the 777th most popular biography from Japan (down from 577th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Daidō Moriyama ranks 50 out of 148. Before him are Josef Sudek, Oliviero Toscani, Hippolyte Bayard, Herb Ritts, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, and Patrick Demarchelier. After him are Cecil Beaton, Sophie Calle, Gustav Klutsis, Napoleon Sarony, Inge Morath, and Kishin Shinoyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Daidō Moriyama ranks 192. Before him are Maxim Shostakovich, Isao Inokuma, Diane Baker, Per Kirkeby, Shashi Kapoor, and Willi Schulz. After him are Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Liya Akhedzhakova, Lindsay Kemp, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, and Zbigniew Religa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Daidō Moriyama ranks 777 out of 6,245. Before him are Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Motoo Tatsuhara (1913), Banana Yoshimoto (1964), Kengo Kuma (1954), Koji Sasaki (1936), and Seijun Suzuki (1923). After him are Ichiji Otani (1912), Sho Kosugi (1948), Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Prince Koreyasu (1264), and Sanjō Sanetomi (1837).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Japan

Among photographers born in Japan, Daidō Moriyama ranks 2. Before him are Nobuyoshi Araki (1940). After him are Kishin Shinoyama (1940), and Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948).

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