"Language is a direct medium and communicates meaning and intention straight. A photograph, on the other hand, is subject to the viewer’s memory, aesthetics, and feelings—all of which affect how the photograph is seen. It isn’t conclusive the way language is. But that’s what makes photography interesting. There’s no point in taking photographs that use language in an expository way."
Moriyama has spent his life photography dirty stairwells neon signs and the same locations in Japan in black and white.
“Black and white work is closer to what I consider the essence of photography,”
He became most popular during the Provoke movement which was based around his very experimental photography using the grainy aesthetic and gritty subject matter. One of his first major series was called 'Japan : a photo theatre" was a book published in 1968 and it was about the vast urbanisation that was experience in Tokyo and more in Japan life in the middle of the Second World War.
I really like his images and the urban street grainy images fit in well with my theme and how my images look, I also took inspiration from him as his images are very eye catching in a way that isn't describable as they are just images of people in a street but they are so fascinating.
references:
https://aperture.org/editorial/daido-moriyama-on-the-unending-newness-of-photographs/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/07/daido-moriyama-street-photographer-tokyo-colour-fondation-cartier-interview
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