Widely regarded as Japan's most influential and prolific photographer, Daido Moriyama has challenged the conventions of the art form for over half a century. This comprehensive and electrifying retrospective, published in collaboration with the Daido Moriyama Foundation and based on entirely new research, highlights every phase of Moriyama's extensive career, including his extraordinary images as well as his conceptual contributions to photography.

As one of the groundbreaking artists of the post-war period in Japan, Moriyama has continuously established his own visual grammar. This book contains more than 250 chronologically arranged images that reveal his ever-evolving career: his early editorial work from the mid-1960s, focusing on the American occupation and experimental theater; his radical experiments of the late 1960s and 1970s; the self-reflective photographs of the 1980s and 1990s; as well as his ongoing exploration of cities, among other significant moments.

It also includes over 400 pages from Moriyama's rarely seen publications that map the sources of his visual production. The volume is rounded out by texts from the editor and leading Japanese scholars, a personal essay by the artist, and a complete chronology of his life and work. Accompanying a major exhibition of Moriyama's work, this impressive volume redefines Moriyama's legacy and is sure to become the definitive publication on his oeuvre.