Hiromichi (Daido) Moriyama was born in Ikeda-cho, Osaka, in 1938. The father is employed by an insurance company and because of his work, the family moved to various cities in Japan.
In 1961, Moriyama is in Tokyo to join the collective of photographers, however, in vivo and melts away quickly. After working as an assistant of Eikoh Hosoe, in 1964 he began his career as a freelance and three years later won the award for emerging artist of the Japan-Photo Critics Association. In the same year began working with several magazines, the most important of which, although output in just three numbers, Provoke, founded by Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi and Koji Taki.
addition to the two famous series designed to provoke - the one at night, taken in a love hotel, the other made up in a drug store in Aoyama, 1968 during clashes between police and opponents Amp - between the Sixties and Seventies Moriyama carry out important work such Japan: a photo theater, Scandal , Pantomime , Accident , photography Farewell, Hunter .
In the nineties comes the international success that led him to exhibit in various galleries and museums around the world including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999, 2009), Metropolitan Museum in New York; Fotomuseum Winterthur (1999) , White Cube, London (2002), Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2003), Kunsthaus Graz, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2008).
In 1961, Moriyama is in Tokyo to join the collective of photographers, however, in vivo and melts away quickly. After working as an assistant of Eikoh Hosoe, in 1964 he began his career as a freelance and three years later won the award for emerging artist of the Japan-Photo Critics Association. In the same year began working with several magazines, the most important of which, although output in just three numbers, Provoke, founded by Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi and Koji Taki.
addition to the two famous series designed to provoke - the one at night, taken in a love hotel, the other made up in a drug store in Aoyama, 1968 during clashes between police and opponents Amp - between the Sixties and Seventies Moriyama carry out important work such Japan: a photo theater, Scandal , Pantomime , Accident , photography Farewell, Hunter .
In the nineties comes the international success that led him to exhibit in various galleries and museums around the world including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999, 2009), Metropolitan Museum in New York; Fotomuseum Winterthur (1999) , White Cube, London (2002), Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (2003), Kunsthaus Graz, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo, Spain (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2008).
Show: Daido Moriyama. Worldviews
from September 17 to November 14, 2010
Former Hospital St. Augustine (St. Augustine Largo Porta 228, Modena )
from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 19
closed on Monday
Free admission
Info Tel 335-1621739
info@mostre.fondazione-crmo.it
www.mostre.fondazione-crmo.it
Photography Foundation
c / o Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di
Center 283 Modena Via Emilia, Modena
Tel 059 239 888 - Fax 059 238966 e-mail
www.fondazione-crmo.it
Info Tel 335-1621739
info@mostre.fondazione-crmo.it
www.mostre.fondazione-crmo.it
Photography Foundation
c / o Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di
Center 283 Modena Via Emilia, Modena
Tel 059 239 888 - Fax 059 238966 e-mail
www.fondazione-crmo.it
Links:
official website (en) photo gallery
japanorama.co.uk (en)
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