The work of street photographer Daido Moriyama fills the three small exhibition floors of The Photographers' Gallery. The gallery occupies a sliver of a building on an alley between Oxford street and Soho. Moriyama works mostly in black and white but some colour. His work is often intentionally rough and it has feeling.
Update: The Moriyama exhibition is reviewed in the 21 November NY Times.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt
Stray Dog, Mishawaka, Aomori, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 1971. Akio Nagasawa Gallery Collection
Moriyama's most famous image was taken in Misawa, a city in Aomori Prefecture that was bombed during World War II and was later the site of a US Military base. Moriyama traveled to Misawa while shooting for the Searching Journeys series in Asahi Camera magazine. The photo of a stray dog, taken in the morning near the hotel where he was staying, turned over time into a metaphorical self-portrait of the wandering photographer. It reappeared in the book A Hunter (1972) and, in different versions with the dog facing different directions, in many other books and on prints, T-shirts, and wallpaper.
Stray Dog, Mishawaka, Aomori, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 1971. Akio Nagasawa Gallery Collection
Moriyama's most famous image was taken in Misawa, a city in Aomori Prefecture that was bombed during World War II and was later the site of a US Military base. Moriyama traveled to Misawa while shooting for the Searching Journeys series in Asahi Camera magazine. The photo of a stray dog, taken in the morning near the hotel where he was staying, turned over time into a metaphorical self-portrait of the wandering photographer. It reappeared in the book A Hunter (1972) and, in different versions with the dog facing different directions, in many other books and on prints, T-shirts, and wallpaper.
Stray Dog, Mishawaka, Aomori, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 1971. Akio Nagasawa Gallery Collection
Moriyama's most famous image was taken in Misawa, a city in Aomori Prefecture that was bombed during World War II and was later the site of a US Military base. Moriyama traveled to Misawa while shooting for the Searching Journeys series in Asahi Camera magazine. The photo of a stray dog, taken in the morning near the hotel where he was staying, turned over time into a metaphorical self-portrait of the wandering photographer. It reappeared in the book A Hunter (1972) and, in different versions with the dog facing different directions, in many other books and on prints, T-shirts, and wallpaper.
This fifth-floor window looks out on the narrow street where the gallery is located.
This fifth-floor window looks out on the narrow street where the gallery is located.
This fifth-floor window looks out on the narrow street where the gallery is located.