NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: Araki - SPECIAL EDITION Simon Chaput

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: Araki - SPECIAL EDITION Simon ChaputThis exceptional volume is, in Nobuyoshi Arakis own words, an epitaph for my first 60 years. From women bound in the bondage art of kinbaku bi to sensual shots of flowers, Araki pares down decades worth of images to some 1000 exemplary photographs, the ultimate personal retrospective to his prolific, controversial oeuvre to date. ARTIST Nobuyoshi Araki TITLE Araki YEAR 2001 MEDIUM Hard cover in clamshell box SIZE 34,5 x 50 cm PAGES 636 LANGUAGE

Also included: images

7 x 21 cm PAGES 468 LANGUAGE French and Dutch

5 cm PUBLISHER Editions Textuel/ Thames & Hudson MISC 120 illustrations PAGES 208

among them famous names such as Bruce Davidson and Walker Evans

art critics

Since his first trip in 1972

and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades

a full retrospective spanning the life and work of a genius photographer and artist

Photography is love and death—that’ll be my epitaph

natural lighting and motion blur

the second volume appears: Hands of Time - Plein été

or Jacques Seiler …