Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition: Hokkaido〈Final Chapter〉
| Venue | Sapporo Art Museum, 2-75, Geijyutsunomori, Minami-ku, Sapporo, 005-0864, Japan |
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| Closed | Mondays and 3/22 (Tue) *Open on 3/21 (Mon) and 5/2 (Mon) |
| Opening hours | 9:45 AM to 5:00 PM (Admission until 16:30) |
| Admission | ¥700 (560) for adults, ¥350 (280) for high school and college students, ¥150 (120) for elementary and junior high school students. *Please bring your used tickets to the above exhibitions to receive the discount rates in parentheses (). |
This is the culmination of the “Hokkaido” series after “Introduction” and “Chapter 2 / Development.” Approximately 350 works are exhibited in one place.
Daido Moriyama made his debut as a freelance photographer in 1963, and has made a huge impact on the Japanese photography world with his unique expression, which he describes as “Are, Bure, Boke”. After the publication of Bye Bye Photography (1972), Moriyama fell into a long slump, and it was in the early summer of 1978 that he took the Seikan Ferry to Hokkaido in order to “get back to his photography days.” Based in Sapporo, he traveled all over Hokkaido for three months, taking photos with a single-minded dedication. However, most of the 250 rolls of film that were taken were never developed and lay dormant for a long time.
The exhibition will feature approximately 350 black-and-white photographs selected from the vast amount of negatives, as well as new color photographs taken in various locations in Hokkaido. This will be a powerful exhibition space that will serve as the culmination of the “Hokkaido” series, which has toured around Hokkaido since 2009 through “Introduction” and “Chapter 2 / Development.” Moriyama captures a fragment of “Hokkaido” in each moment. The vast amount of “records” will evoke your “memory.”
Daido Moriyama
Born in Osaka in 1938. After working as an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, Moriyama became a freelance photographer in 1963. In 1967, he received the Newcomer’s Award of the Japan Photo Critics Association. His numerous representative works include Japan, a Photo Theater (1968), Bye Bye Photography (1972), Light and Shadow (1982), Daido hysteric (1993), and Hokkaido (2008). Overseas, he has held solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris). In Japan, he has held solo exhibitions at the Shimane Art Museum, Kushiro Art Museum, and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, among others. Since 2007, the exhibition “Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective since 1965” has traveled throughout Europe. Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition “Hokkaido – Introduction” was held in Sapporo and other cities in Hokkaido. Photo book “NORTHERN” is released. His photo collection “Hokkaido” won the Photographic Society of Japan Award. Held “Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition – Hokkaido – Chapter 2 / Development” at Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, MIYANOMORI ART MUSEUM, SAPPORO, Otaru Canal Plaza, Otaru Literary Museum, and Sapporo Parco in 2010. Photo book “NORTHERN 2” is released. A large-scale exhibition is scheduled for 2011 at The National Museum of Art, Osaka.