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Daido Moriyama was born in 1938 in Osaka, where he studied photography before moving to Tokyo in 1961. There, having worked as an assistant to photographer and filmmaker Eikoh Hosoe, Moriyama began to produce his own collection of photographs depicting the forgotten areas and darker sides of his home.

Shortly afterwards, he was awarded the New Artist Award from the Japan Photo-Critics Association; the first of many lifetime awards. 

Many of his early photographs were influenced by the ‘Provoke’ group which published three magazines illustrated almost entirely with photography.

Moriyama joined the movement for the second issue of the magazine which, in addition to its political aims, came to solidify a type of Japanese aesthetic for ‘grainy, blurry and out of focus’ images, embracing a tradition of experimental image making and rebellion against the technical precision promoted by the culture of the time. 

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