Nobuyoshi Araki - Nobuyoshi Araki: Storm of Love - 1982

Love storm

Nobuyoshi Araki
Hakuya Shobo/1982/Japanese/150*210*10

The “Shashin Jidai Bunko” was born out of the magazine “Shashin Jidai” created by the legendary editor Akira Suei.

The first issue of the magazine was a collection of photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, nicknamed “Araki,” entitled “Ai no Arashi” (Storm of Love).

Araki first saw Taeko Hori, who was an attendant of Michiyo Okusu, the actress in Seijun Suzuki's film “Zigoinelwaizen” (1980), and photographed her for two and a half years, compiling them into this book. From natural portraits to staged shoots of Hori in costume and nudes, the book captures Hori in a variety of expressions. Hori's mysteriousness (yokishness) with its unique atmosphere stands out, and her hairstyle changes in various ways, probably due to the long period of shooting, so that at first glance it seems as if we are looking at a different person.

At the end of the book is a dialogue between Araki and Hori, as well as an essay on Nobuyoshi Araki by Kiyobumi Uesugi, a playwright and contributor to “Shashin Jidai” (The Age of Photography), entitled “Araki Nobuyoshitsune's Idea Jumping.