Daido Moriyama
[Three Boys]

[Three Boys]

© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation

[Three Boys]
[Three Boys]
ArtistJapanese, born 1938
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • [Three Boys]
  • from the series The Island of 100 Million People 48
Date1968, printed 1980s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 11 5/8 in. (22 × 29.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 12 in. (25.3 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by John A. MacMahon
Object number2017.121
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Grainy, off-kilter, and overexposed, the style of Daido Moriyama’s photograph is just as unsettling as the three boys pictured in it. Beginning in the late 1960s, Moriyama embraced the hand-held camera and high contrast black-and-white film. Photographing in the streets of Japan, he documented its radical, postwar transformation, indifferent to technical and compositional niceties. In 1968, the year this photograph was taken, Moriyama co-founded Provoke, a short-lived magazine that came to define an entire movement of mid-century Japanese photography.    



ProvenanceThe artist; [consigned to Michael Dawson Gallery/Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles]; purchased by Dr. Barry Ramer, Davis, California; [Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in black ink, recto, top center above image: TOP
Inscribed in green crayon, verso, bottom left corner: 36 [circled]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom center edge: 1 7244
Signed in black ink, verso, bottom right corner: Daido [underlined]

Signed in black ink, verso, bottom right corner: Daido [underlined]

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