On October 10, Daido (Hiromichi) Moriyama is born in Ikeda-cho (now Ikeda-shi), Osaka.
After his father dies in a train accident in September, Moriyama beginsworking as a freelance graphic designer in Hirano-cho, Osaka.
Begins studying photography under Takeji Iwamiya in April.
Moriyama moves to Tokyo, to join the eminent photographers` group VIVO in March, whose members include Shomei Tomatsu, but the group is about to dissolve. Eikoh Hosoe takes Moriyama on as an assistant and next year Moriyama assists in the production of Hosoe`s series Ordeal by Roses.
Starts to work as the freelance photographer. While frequenting the nearby American naval base of Yokosuka. Meets Takuma Nakahira.
Meets Shoji Yamagishi, the cheef editor of Camera Mainichi magazine in June and 9 pages’ article of Yokosuka photographs in August issue is decided then.
First collaboration with Shuji Terayama becomes a series, The Underpinning of Show Biz: A Postwar History of Sideshows, in the magazine Haiku. A collaborative work by Moriyama, Terayama, and Nakahira, There Is a Battlefield in the City is serialized in Asahi Graph magazine.
Around this time, Moriyama obtains a catalogue of an Andy Warhol exhibition and becomes strongly interested in the concepts.
In December, receives the newcomer’s award from the Japan Photo Critics Association for the photographs of local entertainers.
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, he begins taking landscape photographs from vehicles.
On November 1, the quarterly magazine PROVOKE is started Publication. The founding members are Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, and Koji Taki. Moriyama joins the group with from the second issue.
Publication
Japan: A Photo Theater, with text of Shuji Terayama, Muromachi Shobo, July.
Group exhibition
"Pantomime" (with Shin Yanagisawa), Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
{Accident} series in Asahi Camera magazine (June-December).
{On the road} series in Camera Mainichi magazine.
Asahi Camera magazine features Moriyama’s photographs on its cover for the entire year. PROVOKE is dissolved.
{Scandalous} series in Playboy magazine.
Publication
First, throw out verisimilitude, in collaboration with by Michiaki Amano, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, Koji Taki and Moriyama, Tabata shoten.
Solo exhibition
"Scandal" Plaza Dick, Tokyo.
{Searching Journeys} series in Asahi Camera Magazine (-72).
Travels to New York for the first time with Tadanori Yokoo and encounters the works of Weegee at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November-December.
{On the road} series and {The decision to shoot} series in Yomiuri shinbun.
Publication
Farewell Photography, Shashin Hyoronsha
Hunter, Chuokoronsha Inc.
Mayfly, Haga shoten
Document, privately published magazine, from July (continues to vol.5, June of 1973).
{On the Ground} series for an entire year in Asahi Camera magazine.
{The Three Views in Japan} series in Camera Mainichi magazine (-74).
In April WORKSHOP Photography School is established by Nobuyoshi Araki, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Noriaki Yokosuka and Moriyama (-76).
Publication
New York: Another Country, privately published.
Solo exhibition:
"Daido Moriyama Printing Show" Shimizu Gallery, Tokyo
"Harley Davidson" (silk screen works) Gallery Jun, Tokyo
"The Tales of Tohno" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"New Japanese Photography" the Museum of Modern Art, New York; St. Louis Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Krannert Art Museum in the University of Illinois; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The curators are Shoji Yamagishi and John Szarkowski.
"From Photography/ Towards Photography" Mat Grosso gallery, Tokyo
"Fifteen Photographers Today" Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Solo exhibition
"Cherry blossoms" (silk screen works) Matto Grosso gallery, Tokyo
"Hunter" Nijuban Hall (cafe), Naha-shi, Okinawa
Group exhibition
"A History of Japanese Modern Photography" Seibu Museum, Tokyo
In June a photography gallery, CAMP, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is opened by Daiichiro Kikuchi, Keizo Kitajima, Seiji Kurata, Tatsuki Sugimoto, Osamu Takizawa, Koichi Tokunaga, Kazuhide Yamazaki and Moriyama.
Publication
The Tales of Tohno, Asahi Sonorama co., ltd.
Solo exhibition
"Goshogawara" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama photo exhibition" Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
"Whistle if you need me" CAMP, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Neue Fotografie aus Japan" Stadt Museum Graz, Graz; the Municipal Museum in Austria; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Holds a weekly class of photography for about a year from June.
Solo exhibition
"Tokyo: Meshed World" Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Shinjuku Nikon Salon, Tokyo; Osaka Nikon Salon, Osaka
Lives in Sapporo, Hokkaido for 3 months in summer.
Publication
Japan: A Photo Theater II, Asahi Sonorama co., Ltd.
Solo exhibition
"
the Tsugaru Strait" CAMP, Tokyo
“Niigata-city” CAMP, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Japan: A Self-Portrait" International Center of Photography, New York
"Venetia ’79 La Fotografia" Venetia
"Japanese Photography 1948-today" Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
Stays in Europe for one month from April to May. Visits to William Klein in Paris on May 8.
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" Gallery Form, Graz
{Light and shadow} series in Shashin Jidai magazine from July, for one year.
{The Daibosatsu Pass} series in the December issue of Asahi Camera magazine.
Solo exhibition
"Light and Shadow" Nagase Photo Salon, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama Photo exhibition" Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
{The time of the dog} series in Asahi Camera Magazine (April ? June ’83).
Publication
Light and Shadow, Tojusha
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama: Calendar" CAMP, Tokyo
"Light and Shadow: the last chapter" Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Tokyo
In June, receives the Photographer of the Year Award from the Photography Society
Group exhibition
"
Photography and Climatology" Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi
The series "Journey to Nakaji " in Shashin Jidai magazine ( -85).
Publication
Places in My Memory : Memories of a Dog (essays), The Asahi Shimbun.
Group exhibition
"
Contemporary 6 photographers by Polaroid 10x24" Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
Publication
A Dialogue with Photography, Seikyusha
Group exhibition
"Black Sun: The Eyes of Four" Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Serpentine Gallery, London; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, Museum of art, the university of Iowa, USA; Japan House Gallery, New York (-86)
“Paris/ New York/ Tokyo" Tsukuba Museum of Photography ’85, Ibaraki
Moriyama’s long photo essay {How to Take a Beautiful Picture} starts in the December issue of Shashin Jidai magazine ( - 88).
Group exhibiotion
"Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea" Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Diputacion de Valencia Sala Parpallo, Valencia; Casa Elizalde, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao.
"Shoji Ueda, Daido Moriyama and Fuyuki Hattori" Zeit-foto salon, Tokyo
Opens his own gallery, room 801, Shibuya, Tokyo, in April.
Publication
A journey to Nakaji (Nakaji Yasui), Sokyusha
Solo exhibition
Five Solo exhibitions including "Memories of an inlet","A Journey to Nakaji" and "Takuno", room 801, Tokyo
"Journey to Nakaji" Chikurin Seija, Sapporo (88); Freelance, Hokkaido; Asahi shinbun Wakayama branch, Wakayama (89); Kashiwazaki Energy Hall, Niigata (93)
Group exhibition
"Empathy: Contemporary Japanese Photographers ‘87", Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester
{A letter to Takuma Nakahira} in Bungei magazine (-89).
His gallery room 801 is renamed FOTO DAIDO in July.
Visits Paris in November.
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama (vol.6)" room 801, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Gallery K, Fukushima
"Daido Moriyama" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"
Two persons exhibition (with Hiroshi Yamazaki)" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
Visits Paris again in February and then visits Marrakech, Morocco in April.
In May Moriyama organizes the Solo exhibition of Takuma Nakahira “Adieu a X” at FOTO DAIDO.
Publication
Moriyama Daido 1970-1979, Sokyusha
Solo exhibition
"Marrakech, Morocco" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
"Paris" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo.
Group exhibition
"Eleven photographers from 1965 to 1975", The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum. Moriyama's series "Hunter" are shown in the exhibition.
"Orientalism in Painting and Photographs", White Museum, World Design Expo’89, Nagoya, Aichi; Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima; Daimaru Gallery, Osaka; Tochigi Prefetural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Hokkaido Museum of Art, Hakodate; The museum of Modern Art, Shiga; The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art ( - 91)
"Internationale Foto-Triennale" Esslingen, Germany, as the only one representative from Japan.
Publication
Lettre à St. Lou, Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition" Zeit-foto Salon, Tokyo
"Landscape - Thailand" FOTO DAIDO, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Fotofest ‘90" Houston, Texas
"Artists Who Love Nature: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Photographers" Green Museum, Osaka; Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum or Art, Hokkaido; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka (- 92)
"Photography Context: Document, Toyama’90" Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
"Tokyo: A City Perspective" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Foto Biennale Rotterdam '90" Rotterdam
"The past and the present of photography" the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto
Group exhibition
"14 Photographers in Japan Part II ? Contemporary Photography -" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
"Beyond Japan" Barbican Art Gallery, London
"Japanese Photography in the 1970s: Memories Frozen in Time" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Closes FOTO DAIDO.
Group exhibition
"Japanese Pop Art in the 1960’s" (two hundred monochrome prints from "Japan: A Photo Theater" and other works from the late 1960s and 1970s are exhibited. Moriyama is as the only photographer included in this exhibition) Fukui Fine Art Museum
"What photographers have been expressing 1960-1990" Konica Plaza, Tokyo
Publication
Daido hysteric, no. 4, Hysteric Glamour
Color, Sokyusha
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama: Works through the 1970s" il Tempo Gallery, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama: A Photo Installation" On Sunday’s, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama Photographs" Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
In fall, Moriyama joins to the members organizing the private gallery Place M, Shinjuku.
Publication
Daido hysteric, no. 6, Hysteric Glamour
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama: The works from the latest Book" On Sunday’s, Tokyo.
Group exhibition
"Place M opening: Three -Persons Exhibition"(with Masato Seto and Hiroyasu Nakai) Place M, Tokyo.
Publication
A Dialogue with Photography (revised version), Seikyusha
From Photography / Towards Photography, Seikyusha
Imitation, Taka Ishii Gallery
The Times of the Dog, Sakuhinsha
Japan, A Photo Theater (revised version), Shinchosha.
Solo exhibition
"Peeping Out" Place M, Tokyo
"Imitation" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Photo City Tokyo" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
"The National Museum of Modern Art and Photography: 1953-1995" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Film Center, Tokyo
"25 photographers’ works in their 20’s" Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi
Produces Seiryu Inoue Exhibition at Konica Plaza, Tokyo, with Koh Inose.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun features Moriyama’s photo essay {Women in photographs from autumn}.
Solo exhibition
"COLOR 1970-1990" Picture Photo Space, Osaka
"COLOR" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Daido hysteric" Ruth Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
"Paris" il tempo gallery, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Figure" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
{Memories of a Dog - Final Chapter} in Asahi Graph magazine from January.
PRINTS 21 magazine features Moriyama Daido works.
Video Daido Moriyama vs. Nobuyoshi Araki is published, QUEST, Tokyo in December.
Publication
Hunter: For Jack Kerouac (reprinted), Taka Ishii Gallery
Japanese Photographers Vol.37, Iwanami shoten
OSAKA: Daido hysteric No.8, Hysteric Glamour
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama" galerie agathe gaillard, Paris
"OSAKA" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Polaroid Polaroid" Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo.
Publication
Fragments, Composite Press
Memories of a dog: Final Chapter, The Asahi Shimbun
Solo exhibition
"Osaka" Taka Ishii Gallery, Los Angeles
"Daido Moriyama: Fragments" Parco Gallery, Tokyo; Parco Gallery, Nagoya
"On the Road" Mole Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
COLOR 2, Sohkyu-sha
Dream of the water, Sohkyu-sha
Passage, Widse Publishing
Visions of Japan: PARIS, Korinsha Press
Solo exhibition
"PARIS" (inkjet prints) EPSON Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama: stray dog" with Publication of the catalogue daido moriyama: stray dog, San Francisco Modern Museum; Metropolitan Museum and Japan Society in New York (-99); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Fotomuseum Folkwang Essen, Essen (-2000); Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusets; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (-2001)
"Rafflesia" (silk screen works) , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Tohno Story" Taka Ishii Gallery, Los Angeles
"Tokyo Colors" The Deep Gallery, Paris
Publication
The past is always new, the future is always nostalgic (essays and dialogue with Takuma Nakahira), Seikyu-sha
Solo exhibition
"Passage" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
The Documentary film, Near Equal Daido Moriyama Image Forum, Shibuya, Tokyo. (Now DVD ,"Near Equal Daido Moriyama" is published from B.B.B. co. ltd.).
September 14, his official site is started.
Publication
Places in My Memory (revised version), Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Daido Moriyama 55, Phaidon Press
Memories of a Dog, Final Chapter (revised version), Tokyo.
The Japanese Box (Facsimile reprint of six rare photographic Publications of the Provoke era), Edition 7L/Steidl
Group exhibition
"M Exhibition" Place M, Tokyo.
"Open City: Street Photographs since 1950" Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; The Lowry Salford Quays, UK; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
Publication
transit, eyesencia
Shinjuku, Getsuyosha Publishing
‘71-NY, Roth Horwitz
Platform, Daiwa Radiator
Solo exhibition
"Shinjuku" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Platform, Light and Shadow" Daiwa Radiator Factory, Hiroshima
"‘71-NY" Roth Horwitz, New York
"Daido Moriyama: Shinjuku ? Platform, Light and Shadow ?" the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Aichi
"Inside The White Cube: Antipodes" White Cube, London.
Group exhibition
"M Exhibition" Place M, Tokyo
"Photonesia" (with the symposium titled “the Memories and Creativity in Photography” by Shomei Tomatsu, Nobuyoshi Araki, Takuma Nakahira and Moriyama) Naha City Public Gallery, Okinawa
? ?
Receives Mainichi Art Award, January.
Publication
Daido Moriyama Complete Works vol.1, Daiwa Radiator
Solo exhibition
"Hunter of Light ? Daido Moriyama 1965-2003" (retrospective exhibition) Shimane Art Museum, Shimane; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa
"Daido Moriyama in Polaroid: Ambivalence" il tempo, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
"Cop-llage" Nadiff gallery, Tokyo
Group exhibition
"Japan: Contemporary Ceramics and Photography" Hambourg
"Mask of Japan" aura gallery, Shanghai
Receives Der Kulturpreis (The Cultural Award) der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie in November.
Publication
Memories of a Dog (essays in English version), Nazraeri Press
Daido Moriyama Complete Works Vol.2/Vol.3/Vol.4, Daiwa Radiator.
To Nirvana and Back: Photo Album of Real Lear in Echigo -Tsumari, Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers
NOVEMBRE, Getsuyousha Publishing
ROUTE 16, eyesencia
REMIXE, galerie kamel mannour
Solo exhibition
"transit" FIFTY ONE fine art photography, Antwerpen
"Daido Moriyama Hysteric" (poster of photogrpaphs/ digital prints) Hysteric Glomour, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Maruzen Gallery, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama" Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne
"Daido Moriyama" galerie kamel mennour, Paris?
Publication
Moriyama/Shinjuku/Araki, Heibonsha
Lettre à St. Lou (revised version), Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Takuno , Sokyusha
Buenos Aires, Kodansha press
Aa, Kōya (with Shuji Terayama), Parco Publishing
Solo exhibition
"Vintage and Modern Prints" Galerie Bob van Oursow, Switzerland
"Daido Moriyama; Buenos Aires" Kyoto University of Art and Design
"Buenos Aires" Epson imaging gallery epSITE, Tokyo
"Buenos Aires" Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Takuno" Place M, Tokyo
"Daido Moriyama: TOKYO" Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam
Group exhibition
"Moriyama/Shinjuku/Araki" (two persons exhibition with Nobuyoshi Araki) Tokyo Operacity Gallery
"Guangzhou Photo Biennale" guangdong Museum of Art
"CHIKAKU: Space and Memory in Japan" Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, Spain
"Shuji Terayama and Daido Moriyama: Aa, Kōya" Logos Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
Farewell Photography, revised version, Power Shovel Books, Tokyo
A Dialogue with Photography and from Photography/Towards Photography, revised version, Seikyusha, Tokyo
Daido Moriyama SHINJUKU 19xx-20xx, Codax Publishers, Zurich
Lectures at noon/at night, Heibonsha, Tokyo
it, Rat Hole, Tokyo
t-82, Power Shovel Books, Tokyo
Shinjuku Plus, Getsuyosha, Tokyo
Solo exhibition
"Daido Emotion: Daido Moriyama Collection" Shimane Art Museum, Shimane
"Buenos Aires" Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki
"25:00 Shinjuku, 1973", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"it" Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
Publication
Record no.6, Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo
The Tales of Tohno, revised version, Kobunsha, Tokyo
Record no.7, Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo
SOLITUDE DE L'OLEIL, Toluca Publishing, Paris
KYOKU/Erotica, Asahi Shimbun Company, Tokyo
Kagero & Colors, Powershovel, Tokyo
Osaka plua, Getsuyousha, Tokyo
Hawaii, Getsuyosha, Tokyo
Record no.8, Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo
Daido Moriyama Retrospective Since 1965, Editorial Rm Rio Panuko,
Cologne, Germany
Solo exhibition
"Daido Moriyama RETROPECTIVA DESDE 1965", Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemoirabeim Sevukkam Spain
"Kyoku/Erotica", Epson imaging gallery epSITE, Tokyo
"Hawaii", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
"Chaos – Daido Moriyama Collection", Shimane Art Museum
"Daido Moriyama RETROPECTIVA DESDE 1965", Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
"Kyoku / Erotica", Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany
"Vintage photographs from the 1960s and 70s", Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
"Record and Memory", Artium, Fukuoka
Group Exhibition
"Other Scenes", Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles