Daidō Moriyama
Daidō Moriyama (森山大道) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He was born in 1938 with Ikeda, close to Ōsaka.
It is interested initially in painting before turning definitively to the Photographie at the age of blackjack years. In 1961, it settles with Tōkyō where he becomes the assistant of Eikoh Hosoe, one of the founders of the Agence Vivo.
He works with the Japan and New York. But its district of predilection is Shinjuku with its narrow streets where all the layers of the population mix.
One of its most famous photographs is that of a blind beggar in the Métro of Tōkyō. At the time of the catch, this one looks at the photographer, it was a true beggar, but a false blind man!