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This new abridged edition of the highly acclaimed Self Life Death provides an overview of Nobuyoshi Araki's (b.1940) prolific forty year career, featuring his finest and most iconic images in a new, expanded format. Arguably Japan's greatest living photographer - and certainly its most controversial - Araki consistently challenges artistic and social conventions in postwar Japan. The book examines Araki's work from a wide variety of viewpoints: Japanese and European; female and male, including all his major works, such as Sentimental Journey (1971), Tokyo Story (1989) and Erotos (1993). Araki's writings, widely admired and published in Japan, which were translated into English for the first time for Self Life Death, are also included. At this affordable and accessible format, a new audience of photography students and enthusiasts will be able to own a book on this influential photographer.
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Akiko Miki is a curator at that Palais de Tokyo, Paris and contributor to art magazines such as Bijutsu Techo, Studio Voice, Tema Celeste and Exit Express.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The previous reviewer missed the point completely - controversial yes, pornographer no. He is Japan's greatest living photographer and this comprehensive over view of his life's work shown at the Barbican in London proves that's there's a lot more to Araki than some naked Geisha girls. Most powerful is Araki's use of photography to capture memory and loss, as in his work about and with his wife and collaborator Yoko Aoki.We see a profoundly personal iconography developed by the pair and continued by Araki after Yoko's death to trace their relationship. This is a beautifully produced book, shows the gentler side to Araki's work - as with the many portraits of ordinary Japanese - as well as the sheer energy and exhilaration of his photography. Phaidon excel in big, sumptuous coffee table books and this one does not disappoint - it really is a gorgeously put together book
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self Life Death book- A review by Sanjeev Jeevananthan "sanjeev3121" 2012
2 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover
Having visited the brilliant Nobuyoshi Araki exhibition, which was held at the Barbican, London in i think 2006 i became enraptured with this brilliant Japanese photographers work. Apart from Anton Corbijn whose work i admire, who has photographed U2 and Depeche Mode, Araki has to be the greatest photographer in the world!
His photography, one can say is an Avant-garde, luscious, soothing technicolour sensoria ride of unparalleled beauty. Some of his photo's have a psychedelic ambiguous nature to them for example flowers and food symbolizing sexuality. Some may find his work controversial: challenging social taboos surrounding sex and death. In this book it is a cornucopia of Araki work both in colour and monochrome. You will spend ages looking at the photos and their mesmerising quality and there is a fascinating written analysis essay by Akiko Miki. This book, especially for those who love 'photography with a difference' is a must have.
If you buy this book, may I also recommend you purchase the Araki book portfolio No.56 by Stern Fotografie (2009) to accompany this. Essential viewing.
His photography, one can say is an Avant-garde, luscious, soothing technicolour sensoria ride of unparalleled beauty. Some of his photo's have a psychedelic ambiguous nature to them for example flowers and food symbolizing sexuality. Some may find his work controversial: challenging social taboos surrounding sex and death. In this book it is a cornucopia of Araki work both in colour and monochrome. You will spend ages looking at the photos and their mesmerising quality and there is a fascinating written analysis essay by Akiko Miki. This book, especially for those who love 'photography with a difference' is a must have.
If you buy this book, may I also recommend you purchase the Araki book portfolio No.56 by Stern Fotografie (2009) to accompany this. Essential viewing.
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