Saturday, 21 April 2012

Biographies - Daido Moriyama – Japanes post-war modernist photography


The revolutionary movements that started with the post-war generation has certainly have not been without trace in what is now one of world's leading cultural capitals - Japan. A sub-culture of youths called taiyozoku or "sun tribe" has dictated the new modernist values in the post-imperial country braking from and rejecting the old traditions. Mostly affected by the western nihilist and beat movement the “sun tribe” was seen as a careless and even violent movement. However, it has produced it’s own generation of modernist photographer and filmmaker that forever revolutionized the art form. From great many I would like to talk about the photographer Daido Moriyama. He started taking photographs shortly after arriving in Tokyo in 1961. Roaming through a war devastated streets in the economic and commercial centre of Shinjuku, the photographer used his intuitive vision to capture the energy and visual history of the landscapes and people in their most vulnerable state. Moriyama frequently called as the master of imperfections has managed to create a completely new photographic approach of intentional misuse of the camera and films. His high contrast, frequently overexposed or unfocused images in some mysterious ways managed to capture the very essence of the subjects and the intensity and energy of the moment that revolutionized the stagnated approaches to street photography, revealing its original the beauty and captivation. Daido Moriyama can still be seen to this day walking around the district of Shinjuku with his 35mm camera continuing his quest to record the visual history of the people who live there. 

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