Daido Moriyama Retrospective

“A dog drops its head and turns to us, its gaze both challenging and sullen. One can practically hear it snarl and pant. Its scruffy fur is half-lit by the sun, but its snout is in shadow. Could this creature have guessed that its black-and-white portrait would become an iconic photograph? Over the course of his sixty-year career, Daido Moriyama (b. 1938, Osaka) decisively altered how we view photographs. He used his camera to document his immediate surroundings and to visually explore post-war Japanese society. But he also questioned the very nature of photography itself. …”