Daido Moriyama

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Dolorès Marat, La femme aux gants (Woman with gloves), 1987

Annie Ernaux Inspires an Exhibition about Fleeting Encounters

In Paris, the Nobel laureate’s words are set in dialogue with striking images by artists including Daido Moriyama and Mohamed Bourouissa.

Why Daido Moriyama’s Radical Vision Is Misunderstood

A major exhibition in São Paulo celebrates the process behind the Japanese photographer’s trailblazing work.

18 Photographers on What It Means to Embrace the Unknown

In the Magnum Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture, Elliott Erwitt, Nan Goldin, Jamel Shabazz, and more share images that explore the edges of their photographic practice.

Progress Requires Pictures: An Exit Interview with Chris Boot

Aperture’s executive director, who steps down in May 2021, speaks about his career in photography and how images impact our lives beyond the appreciation of art.

Daido Moriyama on the Unending Newness of Photographs

The legendary artist speaks about why photography never reaches a state of completion.

Minimal, Messy, or Melancholic?

The many faces of “home” in Japanese photography.

Delirious Tokyo

In a new exhibition, Daido Moriyama returns to his icons and obsessions.

The Endless Outer World

Daido Moriyama speaks about his Provoke days and capturing the streets of Tokyo.

The Provoke Moment

In the first of an ongoing series of interviews about Japanese photography with Tsuyoshi Ito, Curator Simon Baker discusses the radical new vision of the 1960s.

Erotic Voyeurs of Japanese Photography

Three celebrated photographers push the limits of sexuality and surveillance.

For a New World to Come

Curator Yasufumi Nakamori discusses his game-changing show of Japanese photography with Aperture magazine editor Michael Famighetti.

Magazine Work

In the new issue of Aperture magazine, Tokyo-based curator Ivan Vartanian offers a look through the pages of the popular magazines of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.

Year in Review: Top Articles of 2013

From interviews with leading photographers and designers, to essays from Aperture magazine, here’s what you loved reading in 2013.

Daido Moriyama: Vintage Prints

An exhibition of Daido Moriyama’s vintage prints is on display at Galerie Bob van Orsouw in Zurich, on view through February 23, 2013.

Five Most Popular Interviews of 2012

A look back at Aperture’s top five of 2012.

Photography Reading Shortlist – 10.23.12

Our choice of the best in online photography news and commentary.

William Klein + Daido Moriyama – Exhibition and Book Signing

Looking at the relationship between the work of two influential street photographers.

Aperture Announces Fall 2012 Books

New books from Richard Misrach, Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, Doug Rickard, and many others.

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Aperture Releases “Counter Histories,” Produced with Magnum Foundation Spring Issue Presents Photographers Who Uncover Personal and Political Histories (New York—March 6, 2024) What creative possibilities are offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records? This spring, Aperture magazine presents “Counter Histories,” an issue produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and informed by their…