A Life Spent Documenting the Gritty, Urban Underside of Tokyo


A Life Spent Documenting the Gritty, Urban Underside of Tokyo
In Japan, Daido Moriyama needs no introduction. The prolific experimental photographer shattered the strictures of the medium in the 1960s by taking to the streets and documenting gritty, urban life in Tokyo, and every photography student worth their salt has been introduced to his early oeuvre. 50 years later, he’s still doing it. His emotive black and white, high-contrast images get beneath the surface of a city that is probably best known for its hyperreal slickness and…

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March 17, 2018 at 04:53PM
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