"2012 seems to be the year that Moriyama's work finally takes its rightful place in the eyes of the international public" Quote from British Journal of Photography (BJP iPhone is an E-magazine available in Newsstand on any iOS devices).
I think no one can deny this as a matter of fact. His works have been exhibiting extensively in the famous museum such as Tate Modern in UK and Los Angeles County Museum of art. Nonetheless, I'm attracted by the latest exhibition -"William Klein + Daido Moriyama". (with the app of BJP iPhone, you can get two tickets for the price of one.) I wanna to fly to London and have a look at this exhibition but it seems impossible as I have a flight to Guam tonight. Only thing I can do is watch the videos on the Tate website.
"Cities are enormous bodies of people's desires and I search for my own desires within them."Said Daido.In order words, cities are a arena for everyone as well as a platform for street photographers or snapshotters. If Daido's concept of desires in city is true, photographers are the fantasy hunters who pursue the endless eagerness from every projection of any object, and they "can't photograph anything without a city". The billboard, the traffic lights, the buildings, the people or the action of something, they all have an intention which drives the result to be real and true. I guess that's why William Klein mentioned "... half of everything he's done is chance". When a shutter released after a click, it joints "the movement of both yourself and the outside world". It's implying photography is an reaction of reality, and reality is coming from lusts. Daido "creates his own home by connecting pieces of images from his imagination and thins he saw as a child" and William Klein would feel his some of the snapshot he took as a self-portrait. These two masters are once again promoting photographs are an epitome of the photographer's spirit and mindset.