Daido Moriyama - He prowls the street like a stray dog.

THIS VIDEO: Photographer Daido Moriyama is a restless traveler and has created works in cities around the world…like New York, Barcelona and LA. When you watch videos of them working, they have a focused hungry look as they prowl the streets for images that go to the heart of the space that they are working in. Their unsettled natures drives them to unearth a record a brutal beauty from the street - capturing scenes that were considered taboo or neglected by mainstream society. Moriyama sought out the marginalized and hidden aspects of urban life, documenting subcultures, back alleys, and the surreal. His images typically contain harsh contasts, lots of grain and tilted angles - so he’s probably the polar opposite of say, Ansel Adams. He’s not interested in technical perfection, he only cares what the image feels like. Petersen is probably driven by his heart and gut, while Moriyama, was also motivated by a need to explore photography itself.
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ABOUT ME: The conversations focus on topics related to different aspects of photography including: art, documentary and photojournalism. The discussions explore the personal experiences of photographers and artists and how their work reflects both their internal and external landscape. During the past 30 years I have photographed in over 50 countries for magazines including National Geographic, Time, New York Times and Newsweek. I have held solo exhibitions in New York, London and Paris and my work is showcased in private and institutional art collections around the world.
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MUSIC: KZbin Audio - Drive in Tracktribe, Birdseye Blues - Chris Haugen.
VIDEO CLIPS: DAIDO MORIYAMA A Hunter, DAIDO MORIYAMA Farewell Photography, Daido Moriyama Memories of a Dog, How Daido Moriyama Changed the Language of Photography, Provoke Magazine Reissue Unboxing

[@richardrizzo_photography]

Very well done Graeme, I'm a fan of Daido's work and really enjoyed your video on him and his work.

[@pamelasmith8652]

Thank you. Always have been a fan of Moriyama's work.

[@PhotoConversations]

Thanks Pamela

[@bowenisland100]

Fantastic work, and lovely to watch it flow by listening to your informed thoughts about it. I felt the theme of Farewell to Photog might simply be the chaos of life.

[@hoagyguitarmichael]

Great summation of a master. Love Moriyama.

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Thanks Michael

[@diannevandermerwe436]

Graeme this was one of my favourites. So compelling I want to know more. These clips get better and better

[@PhotoConversations]

Thanks Di I hope you guys are doing well.

[@shawnhollbach395]

Another great video, many thanks Graeme

[@stansabev]

Thank you for this piece Graeme! I have some of his books and just now I begin to understand the images inside💎

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Glad you liked it!

[@nnelgsiggah]

That was fabulous as usual Graeme. Your channel is a firm favorite!

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Good to hear.

[@dirkpehrke9909]

Great, thank you❤

[@jvermillion1052]

Great video.

[@photogroup16]

I hit the like button before watching and enjoying the video, it saves time!

[@PhotoConversations]

I like your style!!

[@straydog6166]

Another great video Graeme :0)

[@michaels7889]

I had been looking forward to this and wasn't disappointed. It isn't an aspect of image making that I can attain, depicting a world that I somehow learned to avoid. It is necessary for deep seated reasons that I generate structured images but these images of that other world are powerful and totally absorbing. Your commentaries seem exemplary and draw one in.

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Thanks Michael Much appreciated.

[@almostgreen9498]

Thanks to you I finally get it! Sequencing!

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Thanks AG

[@iainmc9859]

Okay, I'm probably more influenced by Kurosawa that Moriyawa. I think I sort of struggle with the grainy high contrast school of Japanese photography from post WWII. Maybe I don't get the sequencing. Having said that, I think this vlog is the best of the multiple ones I've seen on Moriyama !

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Thanks Iain

[@thomaseriksson6256]

Thank you for an interesting video. I like the hard BW approach but I hate a picture in books that’s on two pages and split in the middle. Why do that?

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Yes, sometimes it really doesn't work. I suppose photography has limited options when it comes to publishing, so maybe he got bored with the standard approach.