Daido Moriyama may be Japan¡¯s most high-profile photographer. The Osaka native has been snapping iconic photos ¡ª usually high-contrast, grainy, black-and-white street scenes ¡ª for over 50 years. He has won countless awards, had his work displayed in galleries worldwide, and been called the ¡°godfather of Japanese street photography.¡±
But if ¡°The Past is Always New, The Future is Always Nostalgic¡± is anything to go by, the person who cares least about that half-century legacy is Moriyama himself.
Shot in 2018, the year of Moriyama¡¯s 80th birthday, the documentary centers around an effort to reproduce the photographer¡¯s ¡°Japan, A Photo Theater,¡± a legendary, long out-of-print book from 1968, in time for that year¡¯s Paris Photo art fair.
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