Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s. If there is one theme that jumps out from his work, it is Tokyo. He also draws inspiration from William Klein’s confrontational photographs of New York, Shomei Tomatsu’s trenchant social critiques, Andy Warhol’s silkscreened multiples, and the writings of Jack Kerouac and Yukio Mishima. Light and Shadow is the title of a book published by Moriyama in 1982, but it could just as easily be applied to his whole photographic oeuvre, given the dialogue he so powerfully sets up between light and shadow, black and white.

Featuring 86 of his most renowned photographs, this is the perfect introduction to this seminal photographer.

Extent: 144 pp
Format: Paperback
Illustrations: 86
Publication date: 2012-11-12
Size: 19.0 x 12.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500411056

Introduction by Gabriel Bauret • c.60 photographs • Concise biography

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