Klein and Moriyama

I visited the Klein and Moriyama exhibition at the Tate Modern yesterday.  Unlike other exhibitions, I didn't come out feeling inspired or motivated or anything really.  The exhibition was curated in a confusing way; there was too much to look at without really understanding how you were moving on from one part to the next.  The exhibition also suffered from having the mini films about both photographers at the end, rather than the beginning.  Having seen the films, I wandered around the exhibition again, and on the second viewing did appreciate what Klein had achieved - I liked the rawness, bare-faced reality of his pictures - street photography but without the humour of today's street photographers e.g. Matt Stuart.  But, I still didn't really get Moriyama.  His pictures to me seemed quite mournful, which having now understood more about him, made sense.

The review in the telegraph newspaper sums it up quite nicely and I share the views of this journalist:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9594623/Klein-and-Moriyama-Tate-Modern-review.html