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DESCRIPTION:Daidō Moriyama is one of the most important and exciting Japan
 ese photographers of our time\, having made prolific\, often experimental 
 pictures of modern urban life since the 1960s. This exhibition showcases a
  group of approximately 45 photographs made in and around Tokyo in the 198
 0s\, when Moriyama focused his mature aesthetic on the city with renewed i
 ntensity.\n\nMoriyama approaches the world with an equalizing eye\, captur
 ing disparate peripheral details that in themselves account for little\, b
 ut together add up to a powerful diagnosis of modern experience. In 1980s 
 Japan such details encompassed the disorienting and sometimes brutal juxta
 position of traditional culture and modernization\, most visible in the gl
 ut of consumer goods and images. But in Moriyama’s photographs these sub
 jects appear alongside the banal elements of any streetscape: a derelict p
 atch of pavement and wall\, a car with an aggressive key scratch running i
 ts full length\, even a single rose blossom.  Moriyama’s urban imagery s
 hares some of its qualities with other great street photography of the 20t
 h century\, and he has cited the photographs of William Klein as a major i
 nfluence. But his work involves strong responses to a wide range of modern
  art and literature\, including photographs and graphic designs by many of
  his Japanese contemporaries\, Andy Warhol’s silkscreens\, and the novel
 s of Jack Kerouac and James Baldwin. Moriyama’s mix of international and
  Japanese trends to represent modern Tokyo is one source of his photograph
 y’s power\, and the exhibition will include a small number of works by o
 ther artists to demonstrate his visual sensibility\, including prints and 
 photographs by Warhol\, Klein\, Shomei Tomatsu\, and Tadanori Yokoo.\n\n 
 See philamuseum.org\n
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SUMMARY:Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs
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