【Review】 “Well produced and carefully selected, this is essentially a gallery tour in print of the world of Araki. Definitely not for everyone, but everyone who collects or shoots photography should be aware of it.” ~Range Finder Magazine 【Product Description】 Tracing Nobuyoshi Araki’s career, this volume comprises a collection of emblematic photographs (one per day), a new series of nudes and elegant female portraits and a number of "stories" set in traditional Japan. Alongside these serial works are portraits and street photographs taken in the 1960s and 1970s. With these works Araki records Japanese society during its period of intense economic growth. His new flower compositions and the classic bondage series are also included, which are responsible for making him famous throughout the world. His recent productions will be given broad exposure in the Tokyo Diary 2003–2007 series.

Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his life's work.

Two celebrated masters of Japanese photography with very different individual visions return to a part of Tokyo which has played a central part in their work, Shinjuku. The photographs which resulted from their series of visits are compiled in this beautifully produced exhibition catalogue, overflowing with full page reproductions, essays and observations and a delightful conversation between Moriyama and Araki.

Il volume presenta una selezione di oltre 200 opere fra le più importanti e significative del fotografo giapponese, uno degli artisti internazionalmente più acclamati e discussi. Il libro ripercorre la carriera di Araki dagli anni Sessanta sino ad oggi, con particolare attenzione alla recente produzione di cui verrà data ampia esposizione. La serie Tokyo Diary 2003-2007, raccolta di emblematiche fotografie (una per giorno), una nuova serie di nudi e di eleganti ritratti femminili, e alcune "storie" ambientate nel Giappone tradizionale. Accanto a questi lavori seriali spiccano i ritratti e le fotografie di strada degli anni Sessanta e Settanta, dove Araki "registra" la società giapponese nel suo momento forse più vorticoso di crescita economica. Forte rilievo assumono le nuove composizioni di fiori e i classici bondage che l'hanno reso famoso in tutto il mondo.