Daido Moriyama and David Seymour (chim)
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David Seymour (chim)
Lately I’ve been reading everything I can get my hands on. My main focus has been photographers that I’ve wanted to know more about.
The first book I picked up was the book David Seymour (chim) by Tom Beck. In 1947 David Seymour, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson co-founded Magnum Photos, the photography cooperative. I’d known the name, but knew little about the man. This book is a great read and Chim was not only an incredible photographer, but a wonderful caring human being also. If you like Capa or Catier-Bresson, you’ll enjoy Chim’s work as well.
More information is available at Magnum.com
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DAIDO MORIYAMA
The Second book that I bought is a “work of photographic genius”. Like the other photographer, I knew the name and some of the work. But for some reason, I’d never picked up one of his books. Most photographers have seen some works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Masahisa Fukase, and Daido Moriyama.
Daido Moriyama is one of the great Japanese photographers and after getting this book, my favorite. His work is like a harder, grittier and darker version of America’s Winogrand or Friedlander. Daido Moriyama’s images are moody and contrasty, yet they still draw the viewer in. Their darkness seems to welcome you rather than push you away. “Shinjuku 19XX-20XX” is printed beautifully and it comes as a bilingual edition (English and German). Written by Zdenek Felix, he co-wrote the Best of Helmut Newton book. The book is soft bound and has 128 pages.
Here are a couple pages from the book. Daido Moriyama’s work is a little harder to find in the midwest and they don’t have any sample pages on Amazon.
The Daido Moriyama book is available for $26.40 at Amazon.com
The David Seymour book is available for $24.95 at Amazon.com
