Daido Tokyo
- Blair Loves @BlairLovesLP
- Apr 6, 2016
- 1 min read
Twelve years after his first exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in 2003, the eminent Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama return to the foundation for a new exhibition that focuses on his recent work.
Featuring a large selection of color photographs, Daido Tokyo shed a light on this lesser-known yet ubiquitous aspect of his photographic practice over the last two decads.
This style of black-and-white photography would characterize the photographs of his first publications,Japan: A Photo Theater (1968) and Farewell, Photography (1972), and establish his reputation as a photographer of international importance.
The Fondation Cartier has also commissioned a new work from Moriyama in conjunction with the exhibition. Entitled Dog and Mesh Tights, this immersive multiscreen projection of black and white photos plunge viewers into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle and bustle.
Like many other photographers of his generation, Moriyama witnessed the dramatic changes that took place in Japan in the decades following World War II. In response he sought to invent a new visual language to express the conflicting realities of a society caught between tradition and modernity.
Out of focus, vertiginously tilted or invasively cropped, Moriyama's images reflect the disjunctive nature of contemporary urban experience.
Daido Tokyo at Fondation Cartier until June 5, 2016.
