(may the 25, 1940, Tokyo, Japan)
Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer, contemporary artist from Tokyo. He has been assiduously accused by feminist groups of misogynist due to the content of many of his photographs.
Araki studied photography at the university (graduated from the University of Chiba in 1963 and received the Taiyō award that same year) and later went to work for an advertising agency in Dentsu, where he married Yoko in 1971. After the wedding, publishes a book of photographs of his wife taken during the honeymoon entitled Sentimental Journey. Yoko dies in 1990 because of an ovarian cancer. The photos taken during his last days are included in the book Winter Journey.
His work has always brought him great notoriety among Japanese and international audiences. His photographs, always accompanied by texts in the form of an intimate diary, were precursors and innovators within the artistic tendencies of the moment. Later, well known for the photographs documenting the Japanese sex industry and focusing on the Kabukichō neighborhood of Shinjuku in Tokyo in 1980, Araki publishes Tokyo Lucky Hole.
In 2005 Travis Klose made a documentary about his art entitled Arakimentari.
Work
- Otoko to onna no aida or wa shashinki ga aru (“There is a camera between man and woman”), 1977
- Tokyo, 1977
- Waga ai Yoko (“Yoko, my love”), 1974
- Shashin shosetsu (“Photographic novel”), 1981
- Tokyo ereji (“Elegy of Tokyo”), 1981
- Shojo sekai (“A world of girls”), 1984
- Tokyo wa aki (“Autumn in Tokyo”), 1984Links
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Some of his Photos
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