Mount Daibosatsu
Daido Moriyama, Japanese, born 1938
Geography:
Photograph taken in Japan, Asia
Date:
1981Medium:
Gelatin silver printDimensions:
Image: 7 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches (19.7 x 30 cm) Sheet: 10 × 12 1/8 inches (25.4 × 30.8 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1990-51-81Credit Line:
Purchased with funds contributed by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, 1990
Photograph taken in Japan, Asia
Date:
1981Medium:
Gelatin silver printDimensions:
Image: 7 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches (19.7 x 30 cm) Sheet: 10 × 12 1/8 inches (25.4 × 30.8 cm)Curatorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1990-51-81Credit Line:
Purchased with funds contributed by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, 1990
Label:
Like Daido Moriyama's photographs of a rose and of blossoming cherry trees, this view of a patch of meadow on Mount Daibosatsu, a popular day-trip from metropolitan Tokyo, is dissonant amidst his gritty urban pictures. However, his seemingly indiscriminate approach to subjects belies a critical eye: he photographs democratically and relentlessly as if in response to the constant flux of mediated images circulating through the world. Although at first glance his photographs often look as indifferent as the images we see everywhere, they are carefully and intensely crafted, each one the record of a particular experience.
Like Daido Moriyama's photographs of a rose and of blossoming cherry trees, this view of a patch of meadow on Mount Daibosatsu, a popular day-trip from metropolitan Tokyo, is dissonant amidst his gritty urban pictures. However, his seemingly indiscriminate approach to subjects belies a critical eye: he photographs democratically and relentlessly as if in response to the constant flux of mediated images circulating through the world. Although at first glance his photographs often look as indifferent as the images we see everywhere, they are carefully and intensely crafted, each one the record of a particular experience.
