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DAIDO MORIYAMA

A sprawling retrospective on Moriyama, a giant of Japanese street photography, is on view at the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, as part of annual international photo festival Kyotographie.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 23, 2026
Kyotographie¡¯s Daido Moriyama retrospective resonates in an age of endless images
A dense, sprawling retrospective at the annual photo festival reflects Daido Moriyama¡¯s lifelong question: What does a photo do?
¡°Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective,¡± currently exhibiting in Helsinki at The Finnish Museum of Photography¡¯s K1 gallery, features 200 works, two video installations and some of the photographer¡¯s rare photobooks and magazines.
CULTURE / Art
May 25, 2024
Daido Moriyama¡¯s sweeping retrospective brings Tokyo streets to Helsinki
Local artists hope the Japanese photographer¡¯s raw approach inspires change in the way Finns view the medium.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 28, 2021
Daido Moriyama documentary brings the photographer¡¯s legacy into focus
A new film by Gen Iwama centered around reproducing photographer Daido Moriyama¡¯s out-of-print book from 1968 captures a master unconcerned with reliving past glories.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 13, 2016
Tokyo: photogenic to its very core
Care to take a guess what the new exhibition ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo¡± at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is about? In fact there are two exhibitions with the same name running concurrently, so it¡¯s ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo¡± and ¡°Tokyo, Tokyo and Tokyo.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 6, 2016
Japan¡¯s TOP museum sees the big picture
After being closed for two years for major renovations, Tokyo¡¯s best-known photography museum in Tokyo¡¯s fashionable Ebisu neighborhood reopened on Sept. 3, just in time to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. The venerable facility now boasts a new look, improved exhibition spaces and a new name in English:...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 20, 2016
Does ¡®Provoke¡¯ still push back today?
The year 1968 saw a wide range of actions directed against the Japanese government: Universities were occupied, protesters demonstrated en masse against Japan¡¯s complicity in the Vietnam War and students mobilized to stop the transportation of Vietnam-bound jet fuel through Shinjuku Station. A quieter,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 19, 2016
¡®Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition¡¯
Jan. 23-Feb. 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 1, 2015
¡®Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists at Idem Paris: A Lithography Studio in Montparnasse¡¯
Dec. 5-Feb. 7
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 27, 2013
What provoked Japan¡¯s contemporary photography?
In 1968, as the world reeled from The Prague Spring, the turbulent union and student strikes in France, and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Japan, like so many other nations, found itself in the midst of social unrest. Citizens questioned the West¡¯s involvement in the Vietnam...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 13, 2013
Observing the present and past is to see into the future
For the past 48 years, Daido Moriyama has followed his photographic instinct, drawn to subjects whose characters appear as vibrant as they are tragic while leaving the question of which for us to decide. The act of exhibiting, through the unraveling of images, has charted this one man¡¯s continuous urban...
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Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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Longform

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Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
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