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...there any way to generalize about Asian art? Not usefully, which the Houston show makes clear. There's no master key to both Kuichi Uchida's stately Portrait of the Empress, from 1872, and Daido Moriyama's feral Stray Dog, from 99 years later. The sheer multitude of Asian sensibilities is the first lesson that the explosion of Asian art has to teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi...
PHOTOGRAPHER DAIDO MORIYAMA DOESN'T BLINK
...Daido Moriyama is an instinctive photographer who prefers taking pictures to theorizing about them. Nevertheless, we managed to track him down this week to discuss the ups and downs of his long career...
...Daido Moriyama: It's been 35 years since I became an independent photographer, and since 35 years is a long time, naturally my thinking has changed along the way, the way waves do. Nevertheless, the fundamental way I view photography has not really changed very much in the end. What does change is the way I view each subject...
...Japanese photographer DAIDO MORIYAMA has often been called the most important of postwar Japan for his high-contrast shots of all sorts of seediness. He will speak about his work in the Sackler auditorium on Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call...