Photographer Daido Moriyama was born on October 10, 1938, in Osaka Prefecture. While in high school, he worked for a commercial design company before going independent as a graphic designer. In 1959, he met photographer Takeji Iwamiya and became his assistant. He moved to Tokyo in 1961 and worked as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe before going independent as a photographer in 1964. He subsequently published his work primarily in photography magazines such as Camera Mainichi, Asahi Graph, and Asahi Camera, and won the Japan Photo Critics Association Newcomer Award in 1967 for his photo book Nippon Gekijo Shashincho. His representative works include Goodbye Photography (1972), Light and Shadow (1982), and Daido-hysteric. His photographs are characterized by rough grain (known as "are, bure, and bokeh"), blurred, out-of-focus images, and tilted compositions created without a viewfinder. His works have been acclaimed around the world, and he continues to be very active, having held a large-scale solo exhibition at Tate Modern in London at the end of last year.