Daido Moriyama in London

07/13/2018

Vision of Japan, 1999 © Daido Moriyama

In the 1960s Japan was changing fast and Daido Moriyama’s candid photography was an influential part of this shift. He emerged from the decade’s Provoke movement, making a name for himself with his trademark grainy, high-contrast black and white imagery of Tokyo’s hidden places and people: early subject matter included political protests, girls working in hostess bars, and stray dogs wandering the derelict streets. For this exhibition, ‘Scene’, Hamiltons Gallery owner Tim Jefferies has selected his favourite Moriyama images from the 1960s to the present and had each printed as silkscreens on canvas: a close-up grid of ripe lips; a Warhol-esque quartet of portraits; a study of a lady’s legs in fishnet tights; a bustling, exciting Shinjuku street scene.

More information at: Hamiltons Gallery