Editor’s Pick

“At Casemore Gallery, Daido Moriyama’s exhibition fuses both the meditative elements of Shiniro, Jonathan, and Asako’s work with the intense jolt of Andro's vertiginous visuals. With a focus on the bustle and speed of Tokyo, Moriyama here moves through the world at an expedited pace. The revolutionary “rough, blurry, out-of-focus” of his early work from the 1960s and 70s balances against the blocked-out wall of side-by-side more recent (and rare) color prints.

The historic black-and-white silver gelatin prints from the 1960s and 70s were printed by Moriyama himself (now in his late 80s), a feat in which he hasn’t embarked since the early 2000s. From a young girl running in front of a cherry blossom tree to an obfuscated self-portrait in a dirty mirror, these aren't images Moriyama could have made moving in the same way as his newer work. The iconic Japanese photographer captures life at its pace. Moving from summer to fall, from Mill Valley to San Francisco to Berkley and back, life has its different paces, each hour inviting a different rhythm. A subtlety better marked by these artists than by Big Art metal atrocities malingering along the San Francisco waterfront.”

-Janie Perez-Radler

About the Exhibition

A legend of Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama wanted to reflect the sheer and snap of post-War Japan in his work—rough, blurry, out of focus. His "Stray Dog" became photography's most enigmatic emblem. Now at 86, Moriyama has never stopped chasing what he calls "the end of photography," trying still with his lens to pace around that collision between history and modernity that is the tension of Tokyo.