On Photography - The crushing force of time - Daido Moriyama

Uncle Sam (*) Mural - Chicago (Tue 06 Sep 2011)
Daido Moriyama (*) talks On Photography (*):

The crushing force of time is before my eyes, and I myself try to keep pressing the shutter release of the camera. In this inevitable race between the two of us, I feel I am going to be burnt up.

via Daido Moriyama: Now and Now: Steven Kasher Gallery (28 Mar 2013 - 04 May 2013) (*) via The crushing force of time .. (*) by Photographs on the Brain (*).

Interestingly enough, and something I did not know until just now ..

Daido Moriyama was born in 1938 along with a twin brother, who died when Daido was two. [..]

I think little known fact has a hugh bearing on Moriyama's photographic direction and subsequent career. More On Being A Twin (*) later. Back to the Photography:

Moriyama’s images convey the artist’s boldly intuitive exploration of urban mystery, memory, and photographic invention. Moriyama’s work immerses us in the melancholic beauty of life at its most ordinary.

Jenny and Joanne - Twins - Coop's Shot Tower (*) / Melbourne (Dec 1992)

On Photography - Memories and Ambiguity - Daido Moriyama

Martin Luther King Jr (*) Mural (1 of 2) - Chicago (Tue 06 Sep 2011)
Daido Moriyama (*) writes On Photography (*):

I think that the most important thing that photography can do is to relate both the photographer and the viewer’s memories (*). At first sight a photograph looks straightforward as it slices off a scene or a moment in time. But the images that photography captures are actually ambiguous (*). And it’s because of this ambiguity (*) that I like photography..

via Sampling in street photography (photographing other images like signs, posters and billboards) - in 35mm (*) by Alex Coghe (*) and Michael Ernest Sweet (*).

Martin Luther King Jr (*) Mural (2 of 2) - Chicago (Tue 06 Sep 2011)