William Klein + Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern

21/10/2012. Exhibition. Tate Modern [LON] UK [VIDEOS] 10/10/2012 – 20/01/2013
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA

Tate Modern explores the modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through the photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama. Now open at Tate Modern.

Daido Moriyama, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, 1971. Tokyo Polytechnic University © Daido Moriyama. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

Daido Moriyama, ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK, 1971. Tokyo Polytechnic University © Daido Moriyama. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

Daido Moriyama, Misawa, 1971. © Daido Moriyama. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

Daido Moriyama, TOKYO, 2011. Courtesy Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation © Daido Moriyama. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

William Klein, Piazza di Spagna, Rome 1960 © William Klein. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

William Klein, Candy Store, New York, 1955 © William Klein. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

William Klein, Bikini, Moscow, 1959 © William Klein. Courtesy of Tate Modern.

Poster by Tate Modern.

Explore modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through the photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama. This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship between the work of influential photographer and filmmaker Klein, and that of Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s.

With work from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition demonstrates the visual affinity between their urgent, blurred and grainy style of photography and also their shared desire to convey street life and political protest, from anti-war demonstrations and gay pride marches to the effects of globalisation and urban deprivation.

The exhibition also considers the medium and dissemination of photography itself, exploring the central role of the photo book in avant-garde photography and the pioneering use of graphic design within these publications. As well as the issues of Provoke magazine in which Moriyama and his contemporaries showcased their work, the exhibition will include fashion photography from Klein’s work with Vogue and installations relating to his satirical films Mister Freedom and Who Are You Polly Maggoo?

Don’t miss William Klein.- Films, 1958-99 from Friday 16 November.
Venue.- Tate Modern. London. UK.
Dates.- 10 October 2012 – 20 January 2013.

In this film, Moriyama invites us into his studio and takes us on a walk around the atmospheric Shinjuku neighbourhood, his home from home in Tokyo.

William Klein’s celebrated depiction of urban life changed the way people thought about photography. In this exclusive interview for Tate Media, he discusses his experience photographing in New York in the Fifties.