Daido Moriyama first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. He draws inspiration from the trenchent social critiques produced by photographer Shomei Tomatsu, William Klein's confrontational photographs of New York, Andy Warhol's silkscreened multiples of newspaper images, and the writings of Jack Kerouac and Yukio Mishima. His highly innovative and intensely personal photographic approach often incorporates high contrast, graininess, and tilted vantages to convey the fragmentary nature of modern realities.

Daido Moriyama’s “Paris Plus” is a small hardcover publication containing 311 images within its 504 pages. Published in 2013 by Getsuyosha, “Paris Plus” is a visually condensed photographic narrative of several visits Moriyama has made to the city in between the years 1988, 1990 and 2003. The images of Paris bound within the pages of this photobook is as much a documentation of the city’s people and landscapes as much as it is a remnant of Moriyama’s fragmented experiences and engagements with the city throughout his life. The black and white images run through from page to...

“The dog in me tells me to seek out bustling streets, the cat tells me to enter every back-alley I come across, and the bug in me drags me towards the red-light quarters. Copying the world from the view of a lowlife, particularly loitering through Tokyo every day, I feel that this is all the meaning there is to my life and my taking photographs. ” (from Daido Moriyama’s afterword) “K” (from the Japanese “kei” for “view, vista”) collects Daido Moriyama’s latest photographs, fragments of the city, its corners and crannies of the city, the figures that populate it.