DAIDO MORIYAMA: THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES

A broad monograph devoted to one of the preeminent names in contemporaryJapanese photography. Moriyama's photography is provocative, both for theform it takes (Moriyama's photographs may be dirty, blurry, overexposed orscratched) and for its content. The viewer's experience of thephoto--whether it captures a place, a person, a situation or anatmosphere--is the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directlyconveys the artist's emotions. The approximately 200 black-and-white imagessketch out an original perspective on Japanese society, especially duringthe period from the 1950s to the '70s. During this time, he produced acollection of photographs -- Nippon gekijo shashincho -- which showeddarker sides of urban life and relatively unknown parts of cities. In them,he attempted to show what was being left behind during the technologicaladvances and increased industrialization in much of Japanese society. Hiswork was often stark and contrasting within itself--one image could conveyan array of senses; all without using color. His work was jarring, yetsymbiotic to his own fervent lifestyle. In addition, the artist hasincluded a number of photos shot in the past decade to complete thisvolume.