Daido Tokyo by Daido Moriyama, 2016

A vivid hardback published by Fondation Cartier in 2016, Daido Tokyo captures Moriyama’s leap into color with full force, gathering 377 images—both color and black and white—across 248 pages. Known for his raw, fragmentary eye on the streets of Tokyo, Moriyama here turns toward high saturation without losing the grit: fishnets, neon, street signs, and vinyl textures glow against black asphalt and anonymous skin.

Drawing from his “Dog and Mesh Tights” and “Shinjuku” series, the book records a city where desire and signage blur, where detail becomes abstraction, and where surface is everything. Despite the shift to color, Moriyama's instincts remain fixed: eroticism, repetition, the smell of the street, the press of bodies. This bilingual French-English edition reflects Fondation Cartier’s deep engagement with Japanese photographic modernity. A necessary companion to Araki’s Tokyo chaos and Anders Petersen’s city diaries.

Technical Sheet
Title: Daido Tokyo
Artist / Author: Daido Moriyama
Date: February 2016
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions (cm): 18 × 27
Language: French, English
Pages: 248
Images: 377 colour and black-and-white
Publisher / Editor: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
ISBN: 978-2-86925-122-9
Condition: Good