In Search of True Realism – Moriyama Daido and The Psychology of Post-War Japan

Moriyama’s images—grainy, blurred, violently contrasted—seemed to vibrate with an energy I recognised from walking Tokyo’s streets at night, but in black and white: the neon bleeding into puddles, the compression of bodies in train carriages, the dystopian signages stacked up on thin high buildings in Kabukicho.