“Beauty Parlor” (1975) Dan, who’s forgotten more about photography than I’ll ever know, will not be pleased with me for saying this, but I love Daido Moriyama. I know that he uses a lot of cheap tricks and that a lot of his photo developing was ugly. But you could say the same about Flannery O’Connor’s writing and I love her too, and for the same reasons: both of them have this crazed gothic animation in their work that seems over-the-top to outsiders, but is actually realism to insiders. Copyright Daido Moriyama

“Beauty Parlor” (1975)

Dan, who’s forgotten more about photography than I’ll ever know, will not be pleased with me for saying this, but I love Daido Moriyama. I know that he uses a lot of cheap tricks and that a lot of his photo developing was ugly. But you could say the same about Flannery O’Connor’s writing and I love her too, and for the same reasons: both of them have this crazed gothic animation in their work that seems over-the-top to outsiders, but is actually realism to insiders.

Copyright Daido Moriyama