More than 450 pictures taken from the 1960s on draw the viewer into Moriyama’s visual universe and into his approach to the world, offering at the same time a lucid image of a country and its history, as well as of cultural and social transformations that have shaped the present-day Japanese society.
Hiromichi (Daido) Moriyama was born in Ikeda-cho, Osaka, in 1938. His father worked as a salesman in an insurance company, a job that required the family to move between several cities, including Hiroshima, Tokyo and Kyoto. In 1961 he moved to Tokyo, joining in the VIVO collective, which yet was about to dissolve. There he worked as Eikoh Hosoe’s assistant, in 1964 he started his career as a freelance-photographer and three years later he received the newcomer’s award from the Japan Photo-Critics Association. Meanwhile, he started contributing to various magazines; among these the most important one - although it was edited in barely three numbers - was “Provoke”, set up by Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi and Koji Taki.
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