DAIDO MORIYAMA/ RECORD

Daido Moriyama moved from Osaka to Tokyo in the early sixties to become a photographer. He became the leading exponent of a fierce n ew photographic style that corresponded perfectly to the abrasive and intense climate of Tokyo during a period of great social uphea val. His black and white pictures were marked by fierce contrast and fragmentary, even scratched, frames, which concealed his virtuo so printing. Between June 1972 and July 1973 he produced his own magazine publication, Kiroku, which was then referred to as Record. It beca...[Read more]