Araki

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition!

Special budget abridged edition!

"This book reveals everything about me. It's been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death-that'll be my epitaph."
-Araki

The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work.

Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope-tying art) and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender; a deeply personal artist, Araki is not afraid of his emotions nor of showing them to the world.

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Araki

Sans, Jérôme
Hardcover, slipcase 7.9 x 11.4 in., 560 pages, $ 70.00

Events (1 items)

Exhibition
Nobuyoshi Araki
October 04, 2008 - January 11, 2009
Museum der Moderne Salburg, Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 9, 5010 Salburg, Tel.: +43-662-842220451, Austria

Reviews (8 items)

“Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the world’s most prolific and controversial photographers. This weighty, 560-page volume presents his work in all its myriad forms – from innocent child portraiture, sensual flowers and food, to ravishing babes in rope bondage. Having lived his life through a viewfinder, the consummate rebel says: ‘This book reveals everything about me…. Photography is love and death.”
Bizarre, London, United Kingdom

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Die große Kunst fürs kleine Geld
Stern.de, Germany, April 04, 2007

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