Labyrinth: Daido Moriyama

Labyrinth: Daido Moriyama

ReviewThis survey collects gritty, graphic film strips and contact sheets from countless rolls in the Japanese photographer's archive. Such a novel presentation lends insight into the process ofthe artist - and the madness behind his techniques. (American Photo)Paperback. Pub Date :2012-10-15 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Aperture Throughout Daido Moriyama's extensive career. he has continually sought new ways of presenting and recontextualizing his work. frequently recasting his images through the use of different printing techniques. installation. or re-editing and reformatting. In each iteration. images both old and new take on changed and newly charged significance. This volume. created during preparations for several international survey exhibitions. offers both the photographer and the viewer the opportunity to consider the photographer's life work in a fresh light. The author has returned to his contact sheets from the past five decades. selecting previously known images as well as ones never before published. The pages offer reproductions of original contact sheets; sequences of new contact sheets made from recomb...About the AuthorDaido Moriyama has been publishing and exhibiting his photography since the late 1960s, with a bibliography of over 300 monographs to his name. A major retrospective, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, originated in 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and subsequently toured internationally to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Japan Society in New York, Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of the Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f