Grand Level, Yubari
Daidō Moriyama Japanese
Not on view
Throughout his prolific career as a photographer, Moriyama has documented postwar Japanese life. Influenced by the graphic style of avant-garde Japanese photographers and William Klein’s off-kilter documentary approach, he has seamlessly merged Western and Asian aesthetic sensibilities. Grand Level, Yubari portrays a lone train passing through an old coal-mining town. While beautiful and even dreamlike, this photograph also elicits a foreboding energy, as the encroaching darkness seems to swallow up the unsuspecting children in the foreground.
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