Daido Moriyama: Capturing the Pulse of Postwar Japan Daido Moriyama, born Hiromichi Moriyama in Osaka in 1938, is a towering figure in Japanese photography and a pivotal voice in the international avant-garde. His work isn’t about pristine beauty or carefully constructed narratives; instead, it plunges headfirst into the gritty reality of postwar Japan – its alienation, its frenetic energy, and its often unsettling juxtaposition of ol…