Shinjuku

Daido Moriyama

2002

Gelatin silver print

J. Paul Getty Museum

With its indecency, hardness and disconsolateness, the city functions in strange ways and yet exposes itself as lively; it is almost a contemporary Babylon. I think that Shinjuku and I have a similar nature; perhaps that is the reason why I cannot help but be fascinated by it.--Daidō Moriyama Since the 1960s Daidō Moriyama has actively recorded the subculture of Tokyo. During his career he has gravitated to the dense ward of Shinjuku--known for its colossal train station, bright neon signage, and Golden Gai (a narrow network of alleyways crowded with small bars and clubs). In such neighborhoods he has located the gritty, unseemly si