Nobuyoshi Araki

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Nobuyoshi Araki ( Japanese荒木 経 惟Araki Nobuyoshi ; born May 25, 1940 in Minowa, Tokyo ) is one of the most important photographers in Japan. The artist achieved fame especially in the genre of nude photography . He lives and works in Tokyo.

Nobuyoshi Araki is the son of a shoe seller. He studied photography at Chiba University from 1959 to 1963 and then worked for an advertising company.

Araki was an avid admirer of Brassaï , Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard from an early age . His own career began in 1964 with pictures of children in the city, then Araki photographed his own honeymoon. The now legendary book Sentimental Journey was created from these photos . In the 1970s, Araki broke away from press photography and reportage photography and began to show interpersonal relationships. He documented the depths of the soul and quickly found access to eroticism. At this time he began to publish his photographs in the avant-garde comic magazine Garo, among others . Araki invented the term "photo me". This is an alternation between fiction, truth and wish. Araki is an ambitious observer of the environment and takes photos every day. In Japan, some of his photos are censored because of "obscenity", whereby the artist ironically takes up the "black bars" of the censorship in some of his books and censors his books himself with brush and paint.

One of his most famous models is the Icelandic singer Björk , who admires his work. Araki took pictures for her album Telegram, which was released in 1996, among other things .

Araki has published over 350 books.

Exhibitions (selection in Europe)

  • 1992: Nobuyoshi Araki - Nude Tokyo. 1971 - 1991 , Camera Austria, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
  • 1995–1996: Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyo Novelle , Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg
  • 2007–2008: Araki Gold: Noboyushi Araki a Roma , Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma
  • 2008: Noboyushi Araki: Kinbaku , Jablonka Gallery , Berlin
  • 2008: Araki Meets Hokusai , kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
  • 2010: Noboyushi Araki: Kinbaku , Jablonka Gallery , Cologne
  • 2014: Araki Teller Teller Araki , OstLicht Gallery, Vienna
  • 2018–2019: Nobuyoshi Araki: Impossible Love - Vintage Photographs , C / O Berlin , Berlin

Awards

literature

  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Nude Tokyo . 1971–1991, German - English; Edition Camera Austeria, Graz 1992, ISBN 3-900508-10-0
  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki - Tokyo Lucky Hole. English - French - German; Taschen, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8228-8189-9 .
  • Filippo Maggia: Araki Gold. Skira Flammarion, 2008, ISBN 978-88-6130-298-3 .
  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death . Phaidon Press, New York 2005, ISBN 0-7148-4555-8
  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Kinbaku. Jablonka Gallery, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-931354-42-8
  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki Portfolio. English German; te Neues, 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-19846-9 .
  • The Flower as Image. Exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Humlebaek 2004, ISBN 87-90029-99-2 .
  • Hokusai: Japanese woodcuts from the Thun Collection; On the occasion of the exhibition "Araki Meets Hokusai". Kestner Society Hannover, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 3-939583-98-7 .
  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Hi-Nikki (Non-Diary Diary) . English France; Éditions Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-86925-125-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

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