Daido Moriyama
Japanese · 1938–
Street photographer whose high-contrast, grainy black-and-white images capture the raw, restless energy of postwar Japanese urban life.
Wikipedia ↗“I want to take photographs that are like fossils of light and time.”
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“I suppose my photographs already look like something other than what I actually saw.”
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“Photography is a medium of desire. I have an uncontrollable desire to take photographs.”
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“I always shoot as if I'm capturing a city's breath.”
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“I just keep walking and shooting. If I stopped, it would be the end of me as a photographer.”
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