Nobuyoshi Araki

by Miki, Akiko; Isshiki, Yoshiko; Sato, Tomoko

• ISBN13: 9780714845555
• ISBN10: 0714845558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

"Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's greatest living photographers, and certainly its most controversial. Over the last forty years he has published more than 250 books, which bear testimony to his inexhaustible creative energy, while his work, which often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death, has drawn critical attention both at home and abroad." "This major publication provides the most comprehensive overview yet of Araki's highly prolific forty-year career. Araki's key series of works are included alongside many new and previously unpublished photographs. Featuring an interview and essays by writers from Japan and Europe, this book examines Araki from a broad range of perspectives and gives a cultural context to his work. Also included is a wide selection of Araki's writings, translated into English for the first time, as well as an illustrated and annotated bibliography of his own books."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

'The Photographic Life of Nobuyoshi Araki'	p. 13
'Ice That Doesn't Melt'	p. 21
Self	p. 25
Satchin	p. 29
Satchin	p. 30
Thoughts on receipt of the 1st Taiyo Prize	p. 30
Satchin is all about self-timer photos	p. 31
Sentimental Journey	p. 45
Preface to Sentimental Journey	p. 46
Questionnaire: My ten favourite photographers	p. 56
'Genius Ararchy'	p. 73
Private Diary	p. 83
When you're dead what's left is works of art	p. 84
Taking photographs with the mind's lens	p. 133
Suicide in Karuizawa	p. 143
Aspiring to imperfect perfection	p. 144
Banquet	p. 169
I get encouraged by my own photographs	p. 170
Winter Journey	p. 187
Life	p. 247
'In Conversation with Araki'	p. 249
'Araki and Post-History'	p. 257
Faces	p. 263
My laboratory	p. 265
Photographs don't portray things just as they are	p. 266
Eros	p. 293
Kyoto White Sentiment	p. 349
Art is all about doing what you shouldn't	p. 350
A's Lovers	p. 359
Photography is all about collaboration	p. 378
Love in Winter	p. 387
Releasing the shutter is an act of betrayal	p. 388
Photographs should be wet	p. 413
Photographs are seasonal	p. 414
Tokyo	p. 421
Tokyo Lucky Hole	p. 423
Ensuring that the truth remains unseen!	p. 424
Spermaco	p. 445
Different places, different women, different men	p. 446
Tokyo Nude	p. 455
Photographs are taken with the body	p. 456
A's Paradise	p. 473
A straight line of vision is my basic principle	p. 474
Tokyo Story	p. 483
The type of camera depends on what you're planning to shoot	p. 484
Cities, Towns, Streets	p. 495
Tokyo, in Autumn	p. 501
Tokyo, in Autumn	p. 503
Hitomachi	p. 513
The richness of local communities shows in the smiling faces of their residents	p. 514
Cities, towns, streets	p. 515
The narrative is present in the subject	p. 529
Focusing on feelings and moods	p. 530
Taipei, Shanghai, Seoul, Bangkok	p. 531
Death	p. 541
'Japan in Araki's World', Yuko Tanaka	p. 545
My mother's death, or an introduction to home photography	p. 557
Erotos	p. 565
Kinbaku (to the Other World)	p. 595
River Between Life & Death	p. 635
The death of someone dear to you makes you turn towards life	p. 646
Photographing the sky	p. 655
Ku (Void)	p. 679
Bibliography	p. 693
Chronology	p. 711
Index	p. 717
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