Daido Moriyama
Tsugaru

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Artist Daido MoriyamaJapanese, born 1938

CultureJapanese

Titles

Tsugaru

Date1976

Place depictedJapan

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 7/8 × 16 1/4 in. (27.6 × 41.3 cm)
Sheet: 17 5/8 × 21 5/8 in. (44.8 × 54.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz Charitable Lead Trust

Object number2013.234

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1960s, embracing the hand-held camera and high contrast black-and white film, he photographed in the streets, indifferent to technical and compositional customs and niceties. Inspired by the American photographer William Klein for the use of instantaneous conditions and natural light, Moriyama purposely sought to blur, scratch, and mis-expose, leading critics to inveigh against his are, bure, boke, konpora (rough, blurred out-of-focus, contemporary) approach to photography. Here, an image of a narrow back street, is an excellent example of his practice, and a rare vintage print from his camera work in northern Japan in the late 1960s.
ProvenanceArtist, 1970-2011; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo [Taka Ishii found the work in the artist's studio in 2011]
Exhibition HistoryDAIDO MORIYAMA
“TSUGARU”
27 November – 18 December, 2010
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

“For A New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 Japan,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 8–July 12, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in pencil verso lower left by artist in English and Japanese

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