Araki

TASCHEN 25 - 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.

Facts

Araki

Sans, Jérôme
Hardcover, slipcase, 20 x 29 cm (7.9 x 11.4 in.), 560 pages
$ 70.00

ISBN: 978-3-8228-3823-5
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
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Reviews (9 items)

"First I thought of publishing everything myself in Japan. But finally it seemed more interesting to do it through another person's perspective, and most particularly a foreigner's. For me, the "other person" is always a foreigner. And this time, it is indeed a foreigner, which is very fresh. Ultimately, this book is not "Araki by Araki", but "Araki by TASCHEN". I think it remains just as interesting. When a foreigner chooses my works, it can reveal to unknown aspects of myself."
Nobuyoshi Araki to AmericanSuburbX.com, Los Angeles, United States

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Nobuyoshi Araki Interviewed by Jérôme Sans
americansuburbx.com, United States, September 16, 2009

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