Moriyama is a Japanese photographer best known for his photos
depicting post-war Japan and beyond. His work is characterized by powerful,
high contrast black-and-white pictures, concentrating on the little-seen parts
of the city and highlighting the effects of industrialization on modern life in
Japan.
As a street photographer, his goal is to provoke the viewer
to discover a new language. He believes that photography isn’t conclusive the
way language is, and communicates what he sees in the world through his photos
rather than through text. He mainly shoots in black and white, and most of his work
has an aggressive, high contrast, dynamic, angular feel to it. There’s a fierce
motion in his photos, some blurring to abstraction, yet with the need to
capture the immediacy and vivacity of living presence at the same time.
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