Drawn from an archive spanning nearly six decades, Daido Moriyama’s latest retrospective at C/O Berlin induced slow looking at fast pictures. A carefully conceived presentation of prints, books, and video installations allowed viewers to take in distinct phases of the Japanese photographer’s frenetic production, yet the barrage of images remained dizzying in its cumulative effect. Apt, given that Moriyama was a pioneer of blurry vision.
Moriyama’s signature , (grainy, blurry,