First trained in graphic design before taking up photography with Takeji Iwaniya, Moriyama moved to Tokyo in 1961 where he assisted photographer Eikoh Hosoe for three years and became familiar with the trenchant
social critiques produced by photographer Shomei Tomatsu.
Not exact matches
Critique, in other words, enables us to explain how
social differences — gender, race, sexuality, and class — have been systematically
produced and continue to operate within regimes of exploitation — namely within the international division of labor in global capitalism, so that we can fight to change them.
Together with that of his brother, Robert (who died last year), Warrington's daily practice of probing, prodding, and reappropriating culture, history, and politics has
produced a nearly boundless trove of comical
social critique.
A witty observer of the culture of his time, the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini sought to
produce, in his films and texts, a
critique of the then ongoing
social transformations in Italy and a record of certain cultural practices that, according to him, were disappearing.
Biographical legend,
produced in the construction of an individual mythology, is a
critique of biographism; it gives shape to the identity crises experienced by individuals in their various cultural and
social relations of belonging.
Their practices are useful parallels to Love's; her works in the accompanying exhibition
produce social critique in referencing hegemonic symbolic structures — like certain fashion or religious iconography — while being composed of expressive, powerfully raw mark making.