Today, it seems everyone is an apprentice in the art of snapshot photography. Our tool is a phone, and our agent is social media. Thanks to a new book published by Laurence King, we get the opportunity to learn from the master. Daido Moriyama: How I Ta...
Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs,Today, it seems everyone is an apprentice in the art of snapshot photography. Our tool is a phone, and our agent is social media. Thanks to a new book published by Laurence King, we get the opportunity to learn from the master.is filled with glimpses of wisdom from the Japanese street photography forerunner, offering us rookie iPhone-wielders a crash course in how to take snatched snaps that succeed in offering pause for thought.
Written by Japanese author Takeshi Nakamoto, in close collaboration with the artist, we journey through Moriyama’s creative practice. In the neatly titled first chapter ‘A Brief Guide to Snapshot Photography’, we’re advised the first step is to simply ‘get outside’. But, as explained by Nakamoto, it’s where to go – and where to look when you get there – that separates a good street photograph from a great one. It’s here that Moriyama’s famed instinct comes into play.
From Ginza to Sunamachi, Haneda Airport to Tsukudajima, the photographer’s axioms unfold. We learn to observe the interaction between people at the street; to pay attention to the food on stalls and shop window displays, to ‘really look at things’, rather than taking wide abstractions, shaking off ‘concepts’, ‘themes’, and preconceived ideas. We ‘take a facsimile of the streets’.
Not your typical how-to guide, the book is a visual riot. As diverse as sweeping cityscapes, unctuous footprints in the mud, and intimate portraits of Ginza cafes. Despite the divergent themes, each image is connected by a certain wistfulness. Readers get the sense of what’s just out of shot; or what’s just happened – smudged moments captured from a moving car.
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