Nobuyoshi Araki

Silver Gelatin Print

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Silver Gelatin Print

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Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
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Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
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Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
Open Edition

Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
Open Edition

Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
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Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
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Silver Gelatin Print

 11×14inch/16×20inch/20×24inch
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Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Printing and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project “Satchin” earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage, flowers, food, his cat, faces and Tokyo street scenes. 

Selected exhibition:

2018  Nobuyoshi Araki: Monstrous Paradise, RuArts Gallery, Moscow
2018  Nobuyoshi Araki: KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery
2018  The Incomplete Araki, Museum of Sex, New York City
2015  The Pistils Waltz, Gallery 51, Antwerp
2010  Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2009  Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.
2008  Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.
2006  Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary),
2005  Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.

Collected by:

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Tate, London, UK