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It's Fantastic SeriesNo. 9

Daidō Moriyama

Photographer

abril 11, 2024
abril 11, 2024
By maryann

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche again shares one of his favorite photographers.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche again shares one of his favorite photographers.

“I’ve always wanted to frame my movies based on Daidō Moriyama’s photos. But it’s difficult. It’s really, really difficult because it’s almost like we have a set of ideas about what is a beautiful frame. But anyway, … somehow from time to time I go and look at his photos, like this one, for instance. I know it is kind of ordinary but I think it’s really, really good. He has some really crazy ones, like this one, I really like. There’s something quite powerful—storytelling—if you like.”

Daidō Moriyama (b. 1938) is a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational, black-and-white images depicting the contrast of traditional values and modern society in postwar Japan. Notable for his rejection of technical precision in favor of the grainy and high-contrast images produced by a compact camera, the artist captures a diaristic experience of wandering city streets. “The city has everything: comedy, tragedy, eulogy, eroticism,” he has remarked. “It is the ideal setting, the place where people’s desires are interwoven. It has remained and will always remain my natural element.” (Source: artnet)

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Raghu Rai

fevereiro 20, 2024
By maryann
Raghu Rai (b. 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated Rai, then a young photojournalist, to join Magnum Photos in 1977.
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Rinpoche wishes to share with you a book he is reading at the moment. Guess which book!
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