Nobuyoshi Araki - TOKYO COMEDY - 1997

Tokyo Comedy

Nobuyoshi Araki/Korinsha Press/H297×W210mm/1997

Tokyo Comedy" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. Looking back at the hundreds of books Araki has published so far, we can see how many of them have “Tokyo” in the title, starting with ‘Tokyo’ in his Gelibara days, “Tokyo Elegy” (1983), “Tokyo is Autumn” (1984), “Tokyo Diary” (1989), “Tokyo Story” (1989), “Tokyo Nude” (1989), “Tokyo Lucky Hall” (1990), “Tokyo Biyori” (1990), “Tokyo Nude” (1989), and “Tokyo Nude” (1989). (1989), “Tokyo Nude” (1989), “Tokyo Lucky Hall” (1990), “Tokyo Biyori” (1993), “Tokyo Nekomachi” (1993), “Tokyo Love” (1994), “Tokyo Kaze” (1995), “Tokyo Novel” (1995), “Tokyo Affair” (1998), “Tokyo Kannon” (1998), and “Tokyo Adoration” (1999). Tokyo Love" (1999). The total number of works published in the 20th century alone is already this many, and if 21st century works are included, the number may exceed 50. This book is the Japanese edition of a catalog photo book published on the occasion of the “Nobuyoshi Araki Tokyo Comedy Exhibition” held at the Vienna Secession in the fall of 1997. It contains snapshots, landscapes, portraits, nudes, and bondage photographs taken in Tokyo.