CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/4/2012

A Conversation with Daido Moriyama

Saturday, April 7, 2012 | 4 pm | Art Catalogues Bookstore, LACMA

In conjunction with LACMA's current exhibition, Fracture: Daido Moriyama, photographer Daido Moriyama, architect Kulapat Yantrasast, and Edward Robinson, LACMA associate curator of photography, discuss the gritty erotics of Japanese urban life. Providing a harsh, crude vision of city life and the chaos of everyday existence, strange worlds, and unusual characters, Moriyama’s photos express a fascination with the cultural contradictions of age-old traditions that persist within modern society, along with the effects of westernization and consumerism.

Featured image, featured in Fracture: Daido Moriyama, is "Beauty Parlor, Tokyo" (c. 1975), gelatin silver print,
7 x 10 5/8 inches, Ralph M. Parsons Fund, © Daido Moriyama.

Art Catalogues Bookstore, Ahmanson Building, Level 1 | Free, no reservations; limited seating | Please call to pre-order signed copies of Moriyama’s books: 323 857-6587 or email artcatalogues@lacma.org .