Nobuyoshi Araki Bücher

A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street. Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi Araki’s early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society, calling the moral responsibility of its members into question. This book combines Araki’s Tokyo series from his early works with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows—all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream. The legendary Araki is one of the most influential and widely discussed artists today, one who deals with nakedness, sexuality and the body in a radical and realistic way. Through an extreme emotional and physical closeness with his subjects, he becomes not only part of their lives but plays a central role in his own photos, thus transcending voyeurism. Together with Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and Boris Mikhailov, Araki is considered one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography. Co-published with C/O Berlin Exhibition: C/O Berlin, 8 December 2018 to 3 March 2019

"Nobuyoshi Araki distills decades' worth of images down ot 512 pages in this ultimate retrospective of his career. This intimate collection delves deep into his best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colorful, sensual flowers; female genitalia; and the Japanese art of bondage"--Book flap

This is a collection of Bondage art photographs by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

Here you will find over 400 Polaroids by Andy Warhol of street hustlers and call boys engaging in sexual acts and posing as drag queens. The pictures inspired paintings known as the Torso Series but, as Bob Colacello recounts, were known around the office as the Cocks, Cunts, and Assholes Series.

Exploring profound themes of life and death, this project showcases a poignant series that reflects on the loss of the photographer's uncle and step-father. It intertwines intimate images of his mother and Bavarian homeland with symbolic representations of fertility and vitality captured during a trip to Bhutan with his partner. The book emerges from a collaborative exhibition, offering a deeply personal narrative that connects personal grief with broader themes of existence and renewal.

Nobuyoshi Araki in seinem Jagdrevier - UNZENSIERT. Japans schärfster kultureller Exportartikel ist gleichzeitig Nippons größter Fotograf: Nobuyoshi Araki. Die Karriere des nicht nur von mandeläugigen Lolitas als Pop-Ikone verehrten „Mister Bondage“ begann vor 40 Jahren mit der Veröffentlichung erotischer Bilder in Porno-Magazinen. Zwischen 1983 und 1985, als Tokios Sexindustrie in voller Blüte stand, durchstreifte Araki das Shinjuku-Viertel, den berühmten Rotlichtbezirk seiner Heimatstadt. Von Sammelwut und seiner Libido getrieben fotografierte er in den zahllosen Sexshops und Clubs - so lange bis sein Projekt 1985 ein abruptes Ende fand. Shinjuku wurde durch richterlichen Beschluss geschlossen, Ausstellungen mit Bildern des Künstlers wurden in Japan mehrfach untersagt und Magazine, die seine Bilder veröffentlichten, wurden eingestampft.