Nobuyoshi Araki - Color Scenery - 1991

Color Scenery

Nobuyoshi Araki
Magazine House/1991/Japanese/260*310*15

Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's most renowned photographers. Influenced by his father, a geta craftsman and amateur photographer, he began taking pictures and from the 1970s onward released sensational works such as Oh! Nippon and Sentimental Journey. This book is a photo collection published in 1991. After the death of his beloved wife, Yoko, in 1990, Araki had been photographing only the sky in monochrome. He then began photographing flowers and gradually sought out color, leading to this book, “Color Scenes.” "After my wife passed, I wasn't just photographing the sky from inside the room. I stepped out onto the balcony, and from there, I captured the sky, the wind, the light, the persimmon tree next door, the vines entwined on the terrace... (omitted) I photographed such ‘close-ups’ in monochrome for a year. On the first anniversary of her death, I took a self-portrait in color on the balcony wearing Yoko's almond-pink coat, with the persimmon tree as a backdrop and Yoko's portrait beside me. From that day, my ‘Color Scenes’ began.“ (From the text ”Color Scenes" at the end of the book). Street scenes, close-ups of flowers, nudes... The photographs, taken in 6x7 format, are striking for their vivid colors, with primary hues like red and green serving as focal points. Includes obi.