Nobuyoshi Araki

Arguably Japan's greatest living photographer and the author of over 425 books to date, Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940) is internationally known for his erotic images of tied-up, beautiful nude women. It Was Once a Paradise presents Araki's most recent photographic series, 40 diptychs that offer a meditation on sex and grief. Each diptych couples a new color photograph of a semi-nude woman in bondage with a black-and-white still life from his personal diary, a somber image taken on his Tokyo balcony: the site of his former private paradise haunted by his deceased wife Yoko and his cat Chiro. Nostalgic ruins contrast with erotic hope, forming a contrast that is echoed in the packaging of the book, which has been designed to be read in either direction, and comes with a choice of two different dust jackets.

It was Once a Paradise

Nobuyoshi Araki - Sentimental Journey

Araki

A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street. Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi Araki's early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society, calling the moral responsibility of its members into question. This book combines Araki's Tokyo series from his early works with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows--all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream. The legendary Araki is one of the most influential and widely discussed artists today, one who deals with nakedness, sexuality and the body in a radical and realistic way. Through an extreme emotional and physical closeness with his subjects, he becomes not only part of their lives but plays a central role in his own photos, thus transcending voyeurism. Together with Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Boris Mikhailov, Araki is considered one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography. Art is all about doing what you shouldn't. Nobuyoshi Araki Co-published with C/O Berlin Exhibition: C/O Berlin, 8 December 2018 to 3 March 2019

impossible love

Nan Goldin

"I want to capture the joys of life. Not"AIDS" or "cancer" or "suffering" but joy. Closing my eyes to those realities, I want to bubble over with pleasure in these pictures. I know that the minute you let go, death comes creeping up from behind. But I want to have a ball anyway. That's exactly what I thought it would be like to work wiht Nan Goldin. Not to depict death." Nobuyoshi Araki

Spring Fever 1994

Tokyo Love

荒木経惟

This is a collection of the Japanese erotic photographer Araki's life work:ll the hundreds of colour and duotone photos included were personallyelected by Araki himself. While his reputation is founded on his interest inhe overtly sexual, this portfolio demonstrates how varied his work can be,omprising pictures of animate and inanimate objects, day life and night life,ityscape and landscape, and a sequence on his own wife as she lay dying.

ARAKI by ARAKI

Kaori

Hiromi Ito

Akt-Tokyo, 1971-1991

荒木經惟的天才寫真術

A limited edition of 350 copies to coincide with Nobuyoshi Araki`s exhibition at Little Big Man Gallery. Number 1 in the Little Big Man mini series. 123/4 x 9 1/2 inch 36 pages 37 images

Little Big Man Mini

Nobuyoshi Araki Tombeau Tokyo

Vince Aletti

Kohei Yoshiyuki

"Captured in three Tokyo parks in the early seventies, Kohei Yoshiyuki's The Park series features some intriguing photographic works of art. Shot at night using flash and infrared film, the photographs show hetero- and homosexuals gathering for furtive sexual encounters in the Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks. These amorous scenes, however, are unpleasantly crowded; even before Yoshiyuki approached them with his camera, the couples had become objects of desire for voyeurs. The sixty-two photographs are presented here in duotone quality with an interview with the artist."--BOOK JACKET.

The Park

The Photographer's Personal Selection

Araki by Araki

Taka Ishii Gyararī

Tokyo blues 1977

Contributions by Gijs van Tuyl. Text by Nobuyoshi Araki.

Tokyo Novelle : Ausstellung: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 25. November 1995-18. Februar 1996 : Katalog

A never-before-published collection of beautiful, arresting photographs from Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

Non-diary Diary

Nobuyoshi Araki, Hi-nikki

Juergen Teller

Two legendary photographers meditate on death, memory and ritual The latest collaboration between these two seminal photographers, Leben und Todis the culmination of their joint exhibition at artspace AM, Tokyo, in 2019. This intensely personal project concentrates on Juergen Teller's (born 1964) series Leben und Tod(Life and Death), which reflects upon the death of his uncle and stepfather Artur, juxtaposing photographs of his mother and homeland in Bubenreuth, Bavaria, with symbolic images of fertility and life on holiday in Bhutan with his partner Dovile Drizyte. Inspired by this series, Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940) asked to photograph Teller's "childhood memory objects," items of particular emotional significance to him and his parents. Teller eagerly collected such personal gems, among them toys, a porcelain figurine and bridges made in the family's violin workshop; the resulting images by Araki are haunting yet playful, creating an intriguing narrative alongside the original story.

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