From 1968 onwards, Daidō Moriyama became preoccupied with Andy Warhol and his silkscreens. This was furthered by a consequential visit to New York City in 1971, where he further came into contact with Warhol’s work and milieu. This marked the genesis of a process where Moriyama played with the essence of duplication, repetition and mass production in his practice. America’s postwar occupation of Japan and subsequent global cultural hegemony seriously inflected Moriyama’s subject matter.