Nobuyoshi Araki - City of primary colors - 1992

City of primary colors

Nobuyoshi Araki
Shinchosha/1992/Japanese/150*223*18

Nobuyoshi Araki, known by the nickname “Araki,” is a leading Japanese photographer. This book is a collection of photographs from Yoshiyuki Junnosuke's novel “The City of Original Color,” published in 1992, in which Araki attempted to photograph Yoshiyuki Junnosuke's novel “The City of Original Color” (Mitori). Araki went to Osaka in search of the scene and photographed it. After losing his wife, he continued to photograph empty and close views in monochrome, and then moved on to colored landscapes. I wanted to use primary colors, and I really wanted to use primary colors.” Araki turned his camera from the monochrome world, which seemed to project his feelings after the death of his wife Yoko, to the colorful bustle of Osaka. The scenes of Shinsaibashi, Tsutenkaku Tower, and the colorful streets of Osaka, as well as the people he encounters, are captured in color, and his meeting with a certain woman (a married woman, K) has a novelistic sentiment. The book is a sentimental journey of four days and three nights, with a sense of the energy and obscenity of Osaka, which is different from that of Tokyo, a city synonymous with Araki, everywhere in the book.