Yasuhiro Yoshioka - The Paradise of Sodom - 1971

The Paradise of Sodom

Yasuhiro Yoshioka
Haga Bookshop/1971/Japanese/185*258*15

Sodom's Paradise is a collection of photographs by Japanese photographer Yoshioka Yasuhiro, who made his debut at the Yomiuri Independents Exhibition in 1961, but was forced to withdraw his works from the exhibition on the grounds that they were ‘wisecracks’. He was an artist who challenged avant-garde creation and expression through depictions of the body using strong black-and-white contrasts and collage, as if stripping away even the meaning of ‘human’, and his early works were highly praised by the master Man Ray. Yoshioka Yasuhiro was a standard-bearer of the avant-garde photographic art of the 1960s, alongside Hosoe Eikoh and others. This book is a collection of works published by Haga Shoten in the early 1970s and is a collection of avant-garde nudes depicting actresses such as Yoshihiro Wakabayashi, who also worked in films by Nagisa Oshima and Koji Wakamatsu, etc. It is divided into six chapters, with a unique mix of colour and black and white, and the binding by Hironori Nagatomo is stylish, and the texts by Nagisa Oshima, Kazuko Shiraishi and others are interesting. The text by Oshima Nagisa, Shiraishi Kazuko and others is also interesting.