Daido Moriyama is a relentless and restless photographer. “My body inevitably enters a trancelike state,” he once said, describing his devotion to image-making as an “infinite murmuring refrain”. Known for his unpretentious and democratic approach, the Japanese iconoclast has tirelessly documented the road for nearly 60 years, publishing his work in a whole lot of photobooks and countless magazines. He stays one among the world’s most prolific living photographers, using his lens to capture and comment on reality, capitalism, and the mass consumption of images.This weekend, an expansive retrospective of Moriyama’s work will open at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. It's the primary exhibition within the museum’s 52-year history to occupy your entire institution – from the gallery spaces on...
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