Setting Sun Writings By Japanese Photographers -

If the Provoke generation screamed at the dusk, the next generation listened to its silence.

Daido Moriyama is famous for his gritty, blurry, out-of-focus snapshots of urban decay. You might not immediately associate him with sunsets. Yet, when Moriyama shoots the dying sun, it is never a peaceful affair. setting sun writings by japanese photographers

If Moriyama writes in hurried, scratched ink, writes in timeless, frozen calligraphy. His ongoing series Seascapes (1980–present) is the ultimate minimalist text of the setting sun. In these images, Sugimoto reduces the horizon to a perfect mathematical line, dividing the frame between sky and sea. In the sunset variants, the sky is a gradient of dark silver to deep violet, with the sun often just a pinprick of residual light. If the Provoke generation screamed at the dusk,