Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama worked as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe in the early 1960s before developing a grainy, high-contrast, often blurred style of street photography that became one of the most influential photographic aesthetics of the late twentieth century. His 1972 book Farewell Photography - deliberately shaken, blurry, and radically underexposed - was a repudiation of photographic perfectionism that proved enormously influential. He has worked for decades with compact cameras, most recently the Ricoh GR, which he has discussed extensively in interviews as central to his practice.