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The Park»rank: 218004by: Kohei Yoshiyuki
: :Kohei Yoshiyuki's night-time photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. The Park's images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurking in the darkness, waiting to join in--and quickly raise issues of voyeurism and surveillance. In The Photobook: A History, Volume II, Martin Parr speaks to the societal relevance of this series, calling it, 'A brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard ... |
Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection»rank: 577100by: Nobuyoshi Araki
: :' There is nothing more interesting than women, and nothing more exciting.' -Nobuyoshi Araki Araki by Araki is a record of the career of Nobuyoshi Araki, self-styled 'photomaniac' and permanent enfant terrible of the Japanese art world. Published to mark the artist's sixty-third birthday on May 25, 2003, this volume features 2002 photographs covering his entire career from 1963 to 2002. Sex-trade voyeur, recorder of Tokyo cityscapes, chronicler of married life, or experimental photo artist - no matter what your image of Araki, this collection will reveal new aspects of his talent, as it traces his unique vision over forty prolific years. All the pictures were selected by Araki himself (who also ... |
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Diary Sentimental Journey»rank: 89188by: Nobuyoshi Araki
: :' There is nothing more interesting than women, and nothing more exciting.' -Nobuyoshi Araki Araki by Araki is a record of the career of Nobuyoshi Araki, self-styled 'photomaniac' and permanent enfant terrible of the Japanese art world. Published to mark the artist's sixty-third birthday on May 25, 2003, this volume features 2002 photographs covering his entire career from 1963 to 2002. Sex-trade voyeur, recorder of Tokyo cityscapes, chronicler of married life, or experimental photo artist - no matter what your image of Araki, this collection will reveal new aspects of his talent, as it traces his unique vision over forty prolific years. All the pictures were selected by Araki himself (who also ... |
Araki meets Hokusai»rank: 611295from: Kehrer Verlag
: :This catalog presents for the first time photographs of the Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki in combination with classical Japanese woodcuts from the Hanoverian collection of Michael Thun, which belong to the best of their type to be found anywhere in Europe.Approximately one hundred current photographs, never exhibited before, from Araki's notorious Bondage series are presented together with small-format woodcuts. Upon closer inspection, the woodcuts reveal only slightly concealed allusions to erotic desire and sexuality. It is not only where sexual activities may be seen that Araki's spiritual affinity with his artistic ancestors becomes clear.In essence, Araki's photographs are always more than blatant provocation through naked skin and exposed bodily orifices. They are ... |
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HuO: Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Interviews»rank: 63100by: Nobuyoshi Araki, Mel Bochner, Robert Breer, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mario Merz, Chen Zhen
: :It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If 'peripatetic' is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview ... |
Subway Love»rank: 750004from: IBC Books
: :From 1963 until 1972, the young Nobuyoshi Araki obsessively photographed his fellow passengers during his daily commute on the Tokyo subway. Yawning businessmen, women dozing with their legs splayed, kids who mugged for the camera-Araki captured them all candidly on film, without using a viewfinder. Now, over thirty years later, Subway Love brings back to life these vital and various 'prisoners' crammed into their subway cars. Included is an interview with Araki, who explains the essence of documentary: 'to gaze unflinchingly at a thing for a long time.' The brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's leading photographers. |
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Tokyo Lucky Hole»rank: 750004from: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
: :From 1963 until 1972, the young Nobuyoshi Araki obsessively photographed his fellow passengers during his daily commute on the Tokyo subway. Yawning businessmen, women dozing with their legs splayed, kids who mugged for the camera-Araki captured them all candidly on film, without using a viewfinder. Now, over thirty years later, Subway Love brings back to life these vital and various 'prisoners' crammed into their subway cars. Included is an interview with Araki, who explains the essence of documentary: 'to gaze unflinchingly at a thing for a long time.' The brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's leading photographers. |
Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994»rank: 750004by: Nan Goldin, Nobuyoshi Araki
: :From 1963 until 1972, the young Nobuyoshi Araki obsessively photographed his fellow passengers during his daily commute on the Tokyo subway. Yawning businessmen, women dozing with their legs splayed, kids who mugged for the camera-Araki captured them all candidly on film, without using a viewfinder. Now, over thirty years later, Subway Love brings back to life these vital and various 'prisoners' crammed into their subway cars. Included is an interview with Araki, who explains the essence of documentary: 'to gaze unflinchingly at a thing for a long time.' The brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's leading photographers. |
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Dirty Pretty Things»rank: 835872by: Nobuyoshi Araki
: :In 2005, the brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s leading photographers, traveled to Europe for major exhibitions of his work at London’s Barbican Centre and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Already celebrated for his unflinching portrayals of Tokyo in collections such as TOKYO: STILL LIFE and TOKYO LUCKY HOLE, the Japanese photographer embraced the opportunity to turn his lens onto London and Paris, two of Europe’s most historic, dynamic, and culturally diverse capitals. Much more than a travelogue, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS is also an account of the emotional journey of the photographer and the two women he loves. Also included are excerpts from Araki’s journal, in which he reflects ... |
XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse»rank: 1005319by: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, Jorg Sasse, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hutte, Bernhard, Jone Elissa Scherf, Gunter Lorenz, Dirk Snauwaert
: :Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. ... |