Daido Moriyama
Tsugaru

Tsugaru

© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation

Tsugaru
Tsugaru
ArtistJapanese, 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
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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