Yokosuka

Series TitleAnother Country 18

Artist Daido Moriyama (Japanese, born 1938)

Date1971

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 16 9/16 × 11 1/2 inches (42.06 × 29.21 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 15 15/16 inches (50.47 × 40.46 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.15.20

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: [signed in Japanese] / "Daido"

Inscribednone

Markingsnone

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DescriptionImage of barefoot girl wearing dress ascending a path between two corrugated metal walls. The path is covered in trash.Gallery Label

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This image, shot using flash and printed in high contrast with visible grain, typifies the expressive approach of Hiromichi (Daido) Moriyama. Inspired by the anti-establishment ethos of American Beat culture of the 1950s and 1960s, Moriyama embraces photography as provocative medium. Like other Japanese photographers who rose to prominence after World War II, Moriyama introduced a new, subjective approach that radicalized the medium in Japan.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

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