signed, Nobuyoshi Araki - Shi-Shashin - 1994

Shi-Shashin

Nobuyoshi Araki
Asahi newspaper company /1994/Japanese/225*225*15

A collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers, entitled “Private Photography. 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 overwhelmingly popular today. 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 a collection of works compiled in the 1990s under that very title. The text “Private Relationships” by writer Eimi Yamada, who herself has experienced Araki's “private photography” world firsthand as a model, is also interesting.