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PHOTOGRAPHER

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 259,482 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Daidō Moriyama is the 38th most popular photographer, the 579th most popular biography from Japan and the 2nd most popular Japanese Photographer.

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  • 55.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Daidō Moriyama ranks 38 out of 105. Before him are Yousuf Karsh, Jan Saudek, Guillermo Kahlo, Edward Weston, Berenice Abbott, and Jacques Henri Lartigue. After him are Paul Strand, Hippolyte Bayard, Sabine Weiss, Josef Sudek, Carl Van Vechten, and Astrid Kirchherr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Daidō Moriyama ranks 144. Before him are Aslan Abashidze, Félix Mourinho, Nino Benvenuti, Maxim Shostakovich, Jean-Loup Chrétien, and Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria. After him are Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Isao Inokuma, Ieronymos II of Athens, Roger Hunt, Goh Kun, and Beata Tyszkiewicz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Daidō Moriyama ranks 579 out of 6,048. Before him are Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709), Ōtani Yoshitsugu (1559), Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Takasugi Shinsaku (1839), and Ken Kutaragi (1950). After him are Tadahiko Ueda (1947), Usaburo Hidaka (null), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), Junji Ito (1963), Shigeyoshi Suzuki (1902), and Kitaro Nishida (1870).

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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 Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948).

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