Daido Moriyama - Street Photographer

Daido Moriyama is a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational harsh black-and-white photography to convey the fragmentary nature of modern life with images depicting the contrast of traditional values and modern society in 1960s postwar Japan. Born in Osaka in 1938. After being assistant for photographer Takeji Iwamiya and Hosoe Eiko, he becomes independent in 1964. Notable for his rejection of technical precision in favor of the grainy and high-contrast images produced by a compact ca