Nobuyoshi Araki - Journey to Photography - 1976

Journey to Photography

Nobuyoshi Araki
Asahi Sonorama/1976/Japanese/113*173*13

A Journey into Photography" by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book is a compilation of “Nobuyoshi Araki's Practical Photography Class,” a series of 12 lectures that ran for a year in the photography magazine Asahi Camera in 1970, and was published as the 13th volume of the Gendai Camera Shinsho. The series includes a literal photography class in Kurashiki, Shizuoka, Kobe, Sapporo, Yonago, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Sendai, and Tokyo, where Araki was invited as a teacher and conducted with local photography enthusiasts and high school students, as well as a photo shoot in Shinjuku with Masahisa Fukase, paying homage to Atget. photographs taken, as well as photographs of students Araki evaluated. Araki often appears as a subject as well, including a two-shot of Shoji Ueda and Araki in the Yonago installment. While interspersed with recollections of various locations, each installment contains Araki's photographic theories on people, women, landscapes, and other subjects. Even though written in a light-hearted tone, Araki's thoughts on photography are scattered throughout the book: “Photography is the copying of the relationship between the other person and myself, my reality” (from the text).