Tokyo Revisited: Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu at MAXXI Rome

The exhibition 'Tokyo Revisited' at MAXXI in Rome presents over 500 photographs by Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu, offering a gritty, sensual, and unglamorous view of Tokyo. Curated by Hou Hanru, the show runs until October 16, 2022. Moriyama (born 1938 in Osaka) captures Japan's post-war capitalist explosion with blurred, out-of-focus images that reject exoticism. Tomatsu (1930–2012, Nagoya) brings a documentary eye, though his famous images of atomic bomb survivors are absent here. The labyrinthine installation immerses viewers in the city's chaos, featuring nightlife, Beat Generation portraits, and a section on Moriyama's magazine 'Record', inspired by William Klein's New York book. The publication is now printed by Akio Nagasawa Publishing.