DAIDO MORIYAMA × OAO TOTE BAG
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Daido Moriyama
Born in 1938 in Ikeda City, Osaka. After working as a designer, he transitioned into photography, apprenticing under Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe before becoming an independent photographer in 1964.
In 1967, he received the Newcomer’s Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association for works including the series “Nippon Gekijo,” published in Camera Mainichi. In recent years, large-scale exhibitions have been held both in Japan and internationally, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999, traveled to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society, New York), the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011), and a joint exhibition with William Klein at Tate Modern, London (2012–13). He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Center of Photography, New York (2012), the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government (2018), and the Hasselblad Award (2019), and is internationally acclaimed.
DAIDO MORIYAMA × OAO TOTE BAG
A tote bag featuring cotton textiles printed with some of Daido Moriyama’s most iconic works, including “Misawa Dog,” “Sakura,” and “Hana,” secured to the exterior with OAO’s original rivets. The intentionally raw, unfinished edges of the fabric highlight the material’s natural texture, expressing the tension and spontaneous, street-driven energy found in Moriyama’s photography.
