'What you see is what you get' … Daido Moriyama's best photograph, Tights, 2011. Silver gelatin print
Daido Moriyama's best photograph: my girlfriend's legs in fishnets
Interview by Sarah Phillips
'The calves press against the geometrical surface almost to the point of bursting, but the tension is balanced, making the legs very powerful'
Sarah PhillipsWednesday 3 October 2012
O
ne day I was drinking coffee with my girlfriend when I caught a glimpse of her legs, which happened to be in stockings with fishnet tights over the top. I immediately started taking photographs.
Most of my work, whether shot in Japan or abroad, is made on the street. I like to photograph the cities I visit and the people I encounter there. One of my best-known images, a shot of a stray dog taken in 1971, is an example of the kind of thing that catches my eye. But sometimes I want to shoot more erotically charged scenes, such as a woman in tights, or a woman's lips.