Nobuyoshi Araki - Seikimatsu - 2001

Seikimatsu

Nobuyoshi Araki
AaT ROOM/2001/Japanese/200*230*20

A collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, “Seiki Seiki no Shashin” (Photography at the End of the Century). From photographs that “record” the “public” to photographs that “record” the “private. One of the photographers represented by the term “private photography” is Masahisa Fukase, who is currently very popular. As his wife Yoko said at the time, “In the end, it was Masahisa Fukase himself who was captured through the filter of ‘I, Yoko.’” His private and sometimes fictional stories are based on his personal feelings and gaze. This is an element that is common to Nobuyoshi Araki, even if the style is different, and it began in 1971 with the self-published “Sentimental Journey,” which chronicled his honeymoon with his wife Yoko. Since then, he has been capturing his own daily life from his own mind and eyes, sometimes creating “fictitious” or “false” worlds in his “personal photographs,” which are not “personal novels. This book is the first issue of a collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work from Aixencia, which has held numerous solo exhibitions of his work since 2000 and published a collection of his photographs. 2000 copies limited.