Title: Daido Moriyama
Description: First major Latin American retrospective of one of the greatest living Japanese photographers. Daido Moriyama (1938) began his career in post-war Japan and became the most influential pop icon in Japanese photography. Inspired by artists like Andy Warhol, William Klein and Jack Kerouac, Moriyama revolutionized the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to the photographer's archive, the show spans different moments in his vast and productive career: from his interest in the American occupation and the experimental theater of the 1960s to the radical works of the 1970s, the self-reflexive period in the 1980s. and 1990, through the tireless documentation of cities and the reinvention of his own archive. The exhibition, which will occupy two floors of the IMS Paulista.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Criticism and interpretation, Photographers, Biography, Photography, Artistic Photography
Places: Japan
People: Daido Moriyama (1938-)
Time periods: 21st century