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Desperate but not serious
At the Minnosta Street Project Building
(DogTown)
1275 Minnesota St.
SF CA
Casemore Gallery presents Dog and Man, a new exhibition of iconic and more recent images by legendary Japanese photographer Moriyama Daido. This exhibition focuses the city of Tokyo as seen through the constantly sprinting Moriyama’s lens in his latest color and black-and-white works, in addition to some of his iconic images from the 60s and 70s.
Known as a master of snapshots, Moriyama Daido, one of Japan’s preeminent photographers, began his career in the 1960s, and achieved initial notoriety as one of the members of Provoke photomagazine. Their style, which came to be described as “are, bure, boke” (rough, blurry, out of focus), sent shockwaves through the photography world and created nothing less than a new lingua franca of photography, with its grainy, high-contrast, kinetically composed snapshots of a post-war Japan rapidly transforming itself. Moriyama described their work in simple terms—“Japan was moving fast, and we wanted to reflect that in our work.”
Dog and Man presents a selection of Moriyama’s early Provoke-era pictures. They depict Tokyo’s bustling and gritty streets and alleys, women’s legs in fishnet tights photographed in closeups that approach abstraction, and people young and old adapting in the aftermath of a war that irrecoverably opened and changed their society in ways shocking and thrilling. Centering the show is a mural-size gelatin silver print of what is perhaps Moriyama’s most famous and enigmatic image, “Stray Dog,”
In the decades following his early notoriety, Moriyama has never stopped working, never stopped exploring and pushing boundaries of what the camera can show and say, and never stopped documenting his restless journey in envelope-pushing photobooks. The more recent images are represented in the show in black-and-white gelatin silver prints and rarely seen color pigment prints. They reflect Tokyo as an ever-alluring subject for Moriyama, a city where history and modernity both collide and coexist in ceaseless transformation.
Taken together, the fullness of these works show a revolutionary photographer who became a master photographer, still stirred by a city that fuels his revolutionary spirit as he continues his effort to reach, in his words, “the end of photography.”
(DogTown)
1275 Minnesota St.
SF CA
Casemore Gallery presents Dog and Man, a new exhibition of iconic and more recent images by legendary Japanese photographer Moriyama Daido. This exhibition focuses the city of Tokyo as seen through the constantly sprinting Moriyama’s lens in his latest color and black-and-white works, in addition to some of his iconic images from the 60s and 70s.
Known as a master of snapshots, Moriyama Daido, one of Japan’s preeminent photographers, began his career in the 1960s, and achieved initial notoriety as one of the members of Provoke photomagazine. Their style, which came to be described as “are, bure, boke” (rough, blurry, out of focus), sent shockwaves through the photography world and created nothing less than a new lingua franca of photography, with its grainy, high-contrast, kinetically composed snapshots of a post-war Japan rapidly transforming itself. Moriyama described their work in simple terms—“Japan was moving fast, and we wanted to reflect that in our work.”
Dog and Man presents a selection of Moriyama’s early Provoke-era pictures. They depict Tokyo’s bustling and gritty streets and alleys, women’s legs in fishnet tights photographed in closeups that approach abstraction, and people young and old adapting in the aftermath of a war that irrecoverably opened and changed their society in ways shocking and thrilling. Centering the show is a mural-size gelatin silver print of what is perhaps Moriyama’s most famous and enigmatic image, “Stray Dog,”
In the decades following his early notoriety, Moriyama has never stopped working, never stopped exploring and pushing boundaries of what the camera can show and say, and never stopped documenting his restless journey in envelope-pushing photobooks. The more recent images are represented in the show in black-and-white gelatin silver prints and rarely seen color pigment prints. They reflect Tokyo as an ever-alluring subject for Moriyama, a city where history and modernity both collide and coexist in ceaseless transformation.
Taken together, the fullness of these works show a revolutionary photographer who became a master photographer, still stirred by a city that fuels his revolutionary spirit as he continues his effort to reach, in his words, “the end of photography.”
