Grand Level, Yubari
Throughout his prolific career as a photographer, Moriyama has documented postwar Japanese life. Influenced by the graphic style of avant-garde Japanese photographers and William Klein’s off-kilter documentary approach, he has seamlessly merged Western and Asian aesthetic sensibilities. Grand Level, Yubari portrays a lone train passing through an old coal-mining town. While beautiful and even dreamlike, this photograph also elicits a foreboding energy, as the encroaching darkness seems to swallow up the unsuspecting children in the foreground.
Artwork Details
- Title: Grand Level, Yubari
- Artist: Daidō Moriyama (Japanese, born Ikeda, Osaka, 1938)
- Date: 1973
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 23.3 x 34.3 cm (9 3/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Howard Stein, 2010
- Object Number: 2010.513.4
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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