2023 Shimane Art Museum Special Exhibition

Daido Moriyama — Memories of the LightAs a photographer, Daido Moriyama (1938–) remains at the top of his profession worldwide. From 2012 to 2013 he helda joint exhibition with William Klein at the Tate Modern gallery in London, in 2018 he was awarded the Legion ofHonour Chevalier by the French government and the following year he received the Hasselbad Award, which isconsidered the Nobel Prize of photography.
Even as a young child he was very artistic and throughout the sixty years he has been active in the photographic field, hisoutstanding creativity continues to flourish. His work has evolved together with the changing times, exhibiting a richdevelopment. This exhibition aims to grasp Moriyama’ s photography directly, it will set aside his other activities andassessment to focus on his photographs, looking at them from the viewpoint of three major trends. The first section dealswith the question, ‘What is photography?’ that Moriyama clearly focused on from the 1960s up until the early 1970s,
when he devoted himself to explore the meaning of ‘photography.’ The second section looks at his work from the latter
half of the 1970s to the 1980s when he went back to the origins of photographs to look at them as being ‘fossils of lightand time,’ The third section features his work from the 1990s onwards when he strode unrestrainedly through the streetsof the cities of the world. Moriyama’ s gaze can be felt in the photographs he took, multiple memories overlapping eachother. The overwhelming tenacity of the photographs he has produced over a period of sixty years condensing to resemble
a living creature, filled with a light that shines out from the darkness,
In addition, the “DAIDO ALBUM” (Gallery 5) will present photographs and other materials ranging from his childhood,through the “PROVOKE” years, the “WORKSHOP Photographic School,” “room 801” and his numerous international
exhibitions, etc., creating a celebration of his career. Consisting of 400 works and approximately 200 associatedmaterials, it will also include his activities over the last twenty years since his first Japanese retrospective, “DaidoMoriyama: Hunter of Light 1965–2003” (2003, Shimane Art Museum, etc.).
PART I: Farewell Photography 1964–1973
SECTION 1. Japan Theater: Photo AlbumSECTION 2. The Provoke Era
SECTION 3. Searching Journeys
PART II: Fossils of Light 1974–1990
SECTION 4: Another Country
SECTION 5: Light and Shadow
SECTION 6: A Journey to Nakaji
PART III: City Streets 1991–2023
SECTION 7. hysteric/Shinjuku
SECTION 8. Hawaii/Buenos AiresSECTION 9. Record
Gallery 5 ALBUM
Period: April 12, 2023 (Wed) – June 26 (Mon)
Venue: Shimane Art Museum, Special Exhibition Gallery/Gallery 5[Associated Exhibition: Gallery 4 “Daido Within Photographic History” March 23 (Thu) – July 3 (Mon)]Moriyama Daido (1938– )Born in Ikeda-shi, Osaka. He spent his youth at his paternal grandfather’ s house in, Takuno, Nimachi-chō, Nimagun,Shimane Prefecture (now part of Ota City). In 1959 he began work in Tenji Koyama’ s studio in Osaka. Becoming
enamored of the Vivo photographic cooperative and traveled to Tokyo in 1961, where he became an assistant to Eikoh
Hosoe. He began work as a freelancer from 1964. In 1967 he received the 11th New Artist Award from the Japan PhotoCritics Association for his “Japan Theater” series. The following year he published the Japan Theater Photobook. In 1968
he joined the PROVOKE magazine. In 1972 he published Farewell Photography and Hunter, becoming a leader of thenew era and influencing many others. In 1983 he received the Photographer of the Year Award from the Photographic
Society of Japan for his Light and Shadow. In 2003 he received the Mainichi Art Award for his Shinjuku. In 2021 hereceived the Asahi Prize. In addition, he has also held numerous overseas exhibitions, including: The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art (1999), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris (2003, 2016), and the London Tate
Modern (2012–2013). His work has also been highly acclaimed abroad with him receiving the Cultural Award of theGerman Society for Photography (Der Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie) in 2004, being awarded
the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) in France in 2018 andreceiving the Hasselblad Award in 2019.