Daido Moriyama, Kanagawa, 1967 - Courtesy of the artist and FOTO ARSENAL WIEN.
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31/01/2026 - 10/05/2026
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna
https://www.fotoarsenalwien.at/en/exhibition/daido-moriyama-en
A dog in the shadows, its fur unkempt, its mouth slightly open, and its gaze full of mistrust: While garish light illuminates its back, parts of its face disappear in deep black. This photograph from 1971 became an icon, marking a decisive moment in the history of photography. It was taken by Daido Moriyama (b. 1938 in Osaka, Japan), one of the most famous street photographers of our time, who has challenged and expanded the language of photography, presenting a new perspective of the world.
Daido Moriyama became famous for photographs that are grainy, out of focus, and tilted, offering us a radical new vision to talk about the upheaval of society, longing, taboos, and the theater of everyday life. Trained as a graphic designer, Moriyama has photographed life on the streets of Japan since the 1960s. He aims his camera at passersby and urban scenes. In the aftermath of World War II and the destruction caused by the atomic bombs, he found his subject matter in the tension between tradition and modernization, documenting the Western consumer-culture invasion through mass media and advertising. His work is an elegy on a period of deep transformation. With his snapshots, he reacted to the American occupation as well as the contradictory vitality of a society that was metamorphosing from grieving to euphoria.
31/01/2026 - 10/05/2026
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna
https://www.fotoarsenalwien.at/en/exhibition/daido-moriyama-en
A dog in the shadows, its fur unkempt, its mouth slightly open, and its gaze full of mistrust: While garish light illuminates its back, parts of its face disappear in deep black. This photograph from 1971 became an icon, marking a decisive moment in the history of photography. It was taken by Daido Moriyama (b. 1938 in Osaka, Japan), one of the most famous street photographers of our time, who has challenged and expanded the language of photography, presenting a new perspective of the world.
Daido Moriyama became famous for photographs that are grainy, out of focus, and tilted, offering us a radical new vision to talk about the upheaval of society, longing, taboos, and the theater of everyday life. Trained as a graphic designer, Moriyama has photographed life on the streets of Japan since the 1960s. He aims his camera at passersby and urban scenes. In the aftermath of World War II and the destruction caused by the atomic bombs, he found his subject matter in the tension between tradition and modernization, documenting the Western consumer-culture invasion through mass media and advertising. His work is an elegy on a period of deep transformation. With his snapshots, he reacted to the American occupation as well as the contradictory vitality of a society that was metamorphosing from grieving to euphoria.