Why did Daido Moriyama become a master?

Looking at Daido Moriyama's works, many people have three feelings: black, Gao Fancha and coarse particles. There is no jiugong composition that we are used to, no picture that is so delicate that we can't see the pixel sense at all, and even the focus is blurred. I'm afraid that anyone who has just studied photography for a year will look better than him. Why is such a photographer called a master? !

Yeah, why? !

I'm afraid this will design the problem of photography concept.

Moriyama's teacher

First, let's look at Daido Moriyama's teacher, the famous william klein.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (2)]

Forget about geek Klein. Judging from his photography alone, his photos have several characteristics: man-made accidents, coarse particles, blurring and deformation.

Like this.

▼

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (3)]

Is it similar to Daido Moriyama? But the best thing he did for photography was to fight Bresson!

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (4)]

For photographers, Bresson's classical composition theory will come to mind almost immediately, while for beginners, it is enough to remember his famous theory-"decisive moment".

Decisive moment

It refers to the photographer's perfect combination of all factors such as form, conception, composition, light and events at a certain moment. Especially through snapshots, in a very short fraction of a second, the decisive things are summarized and expressed with powerful visual composition.

When something happens, capture the picture that can cause the news most.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (5)]

A famous work at a decisive moment

This is probably the first photographic concept that many photographers who study photography, especially street photographers, come into contact with, because it is a biblical existence in the photographic world. However, this theory is not unchallenged, and the challenger is Klein.

How did he challenge it? Quite simply, as long as Bresson stands for something, he will resist. This has been done for twenty or thirty years, and as a result, no publication published his photos, and no one thought his photos were good. He found it boring himself.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (6)]

I don't feel very happy

After all, whether it's a good review or a bad review, it's better to have comments than no one. [The picture is being uploaded. . . (7)]

So Klein's whole person is not good [image upload. . . (8)], simply put down the camera and never shoot again (don't underestimate the pride of the old man).

However, his theory influenced Daido Moriyama, a genius who thinks highly of himself. Moriyama, who was born in Japan, integrated his understanding and interpretation of Japanese society into his image.

Daido Moriyama, a stray dog.

Moriyama has taken photos for 40 years, but only one scene: the streets of the city.

During this period, he wandered around various cities in Japan like a wild dog and filmed the world in Japan. And he himself compared himself to a wild dog, and even took a picture of Yu.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (9)]

In the photo, wild dogs have fierce eyes, and Gao Fancha and rough graininess bring a dangerous smell, just like wolves from the north.

"Wild dogs don't belong to their own field. They are always wandering on the road looking for food. This is the only reason why I shoot on the roadside, because I don't have a fixed shooting place. In order to pursue the subject, I always wander on the road of photography. Only on the road is my school, my studio and my whole life. "

In Moriyama's photos, anxiety and anxiety are particularly prominent, and this anxiety also comes from the general state of Japanese society, which has a lot to do with Japan's position at that time.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 10)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 1 1)]

In the fifties and sixties, because of the defeat of Japan, the whole society was in turmoil, and the whole nation was deeply humiliated, inferior and confident.

This is easy to understand. For Japan, a nation full of inferiority and conceit because of excessive inferiority, defeat is simply a great shame. At the thought of this shame, it is difficult to sleep, and I swear in my heart that I must rally.

So, in Moriyama's eyes, the state of Japanese society is like this:

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 12)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 13)]

Full of anxiety, even violence and strangeness. Sensitivity and intuition in Japanese hearts are also aspects that Moriyama wants to show. This animal-like characteristic is concealed by polite attitude and exquisite procedures, which makes people mistakenly think that these are the spirit of Japan.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 14)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 15)]

Linking photography with the whole social state, and integrating his own views on the world into his works, he created a new type of street photography, which is probably one of the reasons why Moriyama can become a master. After all, most people can take beautiful photos of 7788 as long as they are trained. But it is the quality that a master should have to be able to shoot works with strong ideological and personal uniqueness.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 16)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 17)]

Fans of stupid cameras.

Another reason why Moriyama is a master is probably because all his photos are taken with a fool's camera. Yes, that was the first camera at home when we were young.

"Pocket camera is great. It's quite light, easy and cheap. Even if you make a mistake, you won't take a very disturbing picture. It's light, it's clear and lovely, and it can't stop. "

Well, obviously Moriyama is the true love powder of the fool camera! [The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 18)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . ( 19)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (20)]

Many photographers are very cautious about their own films, but Moriyama's wish is to create his own sea of images, which is very different from the traditional view of photography. The portability of the fool camera just meets his requirements.

The high reproducibility, diversity and mass of photographic works have reached the extreme in Moriyama's hands, and everything he does, including the photos themselves, is anti-photographic.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (2 1)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (22)]

Exposing holes, Mao Mao, remaking newspaper screen printing, light leakage, local enlargement, scratches, spots, jitter, tilt and out of focus, Moriyama's works are basically composed of "waste films", and the traditional photography aesthetics is completely abandoned by him.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (23)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (24)]

When someone questions his works, he will ask, "Why can your pretentious images be called photography, but these real and accidental records are thrown into the wastebasket by you?"

Moriyama named the collection of works taken by these stupid cameras "Goodbye to Photography", which was simply a slap in the face of the photographer. . .

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (25)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (26)]

"Photography for me is to come to the street, meet all kinds of things, convert them into photographic images through cameras, and then form new desires and new worlds through photography."

Moriyama doesn't have any business hobbies, and his only hobby is photography. He doesn't like any daily communication, and he has few other friends to discuss art and social issues except photographers and artists who share his bad tastes, such as Nobuyoshi Araki and Ji Shu Sishan.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (27)]

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (28)]

"I burned my bridges a long time ago, and I am meeting the challenges that come with my life every day. Even if everything in daily life is complicated, I don't care about anything else as long as there is movement and holding my small camera. "

Daido Moriyama is one of the most influential photographers in Asia. Many people have begun to learn his shooting methods, and they can also take Moriyama-style and genuine photos. But did Moriyama take these photos for imitation?

Obviously not.

The photos taken by Moriyama just tell us that photography is not just the genre of Bresson and Mark Lyu3 bu4, but the essence of photography is freedom and vividness.

[The picture is being uploaded. . . (29)]