Nobuyoshi Araki - Araki - 2007

Nobuyoshi Araki, Araki Taschen 25th Anniversary Series
9783822838235

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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special Edition! Special Edition! "This book reveals everything about me. It has been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death — that will be my epitaph." — Araki.
The subject is the Japanese photographer Araki, a man who tells the story of life through photographs. His powerful body of work, spanning decades, has been condensed into 540 pages of images that narrate Araki's story and form the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. Araki, best known for his intimate, snapshot-like images of women often bound with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope bondage art) and colorful, sensual flowers, is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to get closer to them through his art, using ropes as a hug and the click of the shutter as a kiss. His work is simultaneously shocking and mysteriously tender; as a deeply personal artist, Araki is unafraid of his emotions and does not shy away from showing them to the world.