Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris presents until tonight “Kiss,” a solo exhibition with Daido Moriyama, his first show at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography Paris.
The exhibition features 9 unique vintage prints taken in 1985 that present double self-portraits realized with the photogram process, from his emblematic series “A Journey to Nakaji.” This camera less process has been used since the very beginning of photography to serve many different esthetics and artistic expressions.
With “Kiss,” Daido Moriyama uses this process in order to pay tribute to the experimental work of the great photographer Nakaji Yasui (1903 – 1942) who exerted a significant impact on notable contemporary photographers but also as a way of copying the world, directly and mechanically, like Andy Warhol did, in its own way.
On top of his sensibility in shooting abstracts scenes, the series “A Journey to Nakaji,“ and the “Kiss“ photograms in particular, show Moriyama’s ability to change technique and subjects in an effort to deny the expression within the photograph and to find the inevitable place of the photographer in the photographic process.
