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Nobuyoshi Araki

Author of Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole

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About the Author

Nobuyoshi Araki was born on May 5, 1940 in Tokyo. He attended Chiba University in 1959, majoring in photography and cinema. Araki worked as an advertising photographer and began his independent work on films and photography. He is best known for the erotic nature of his works. In 1974, Araki show more founded a photo-workshop school. During the 1970s and 1980s, his work was widely exhibited and also published in numerous magazines. He created films including Pseudo Diary: High School Girls and Video Love Declaration: The Actress Y's Private Life. As Araki's work became more popular, greater opposition to it arose. Some critics concluded that his work amounted to little more than pornography. In 1992 the Japanese police shut down his Photomania Diary Exhibit. The following year several people were arrested in Tokyo on obscenity charges for selling his book, Erotos. Although his work creates controversy, his more than 80 books of pictures have established him as one of the most famous photographers in Japan. Among his books are Tokyo Comedy and Tokyo Lucky Hole. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Nobuyoshi Araki

Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole (1990) 194 copies
Araki (Photofile) (2007) 27 copies
Araki – 40th Anniversary Edition (QUARANTE) (2020) — Photographer — 24 copies
Araki: Tokyo Novelle (1996) 21 copies
Araki by Araki (2014) 20 copies
Erotos (1993) 17 copies
Dirty Pretty Things (2007) 10 copies
Araki (2009) — Photographer — 9 copies
Kids (1994) 7 copies
Araki: Love and Death (2010) 6 copies
Sentimental May (Works) (1997) 5 copies
Living Cats in Tokyo (1993) 5 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki - 60 (2000) 5 copies
Chiro My Love (1991) 5 copies
Araki: Impossible Love: Vintage Photographs (2019) — Photographer — 4 copies
Shi Nikki/Private Diary (1994) 4 copies
Jyouji (1993) 4 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki Polaeroid (1997) 4 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki: Shino (2002) 4 copies
Araki: Skyscapes (1999) 4 copies
Nobuyoshi Araki laments (1991) 4 copies
The Flower As Image (2005) — Author — 3 copies
男の顔面 (1999) 3 copies
Yoko My Love (1978) 3 copies
Shinseiki No Shashin (2001) 3 copies
東京人生SINCE1962 (2006) 3 copies
Japanese Box, The (2001) 2 copies
Shiki In (2005) 2 copies
Senti Roman: Photo Novel (1981) 2 copies
Pseudo Diary 2 copies
8月ノ愛人(ラマン) (2001) 2 copies
Theater Of Love (2011) 2 copies
Kyonen 2 copies
Araki. Bondage (2023) 2 copies
Blue Period / Last Summer (2017) 2 copies
Fake Love (1994) 2 copies
ARAKISS. Nobuyoshi Araki — Photographer — 2 copies
Shakyojin iro nikki '92 (1993) 2 copies
Satchin : Orijinaruban (2017) 2 copies
Mujo 2 copies
Love by Leica (2007) 2 copies
Jeanne (1991) 2 copies
Black Frame 2 copies
Femme De Mouche (1995) 2 copies
Araki Gold 2 copies
TOKYO NUDE (1989) 2 copies
Theater of Love (2011) 2 copies
原色の街 (1992) 1 copy
To the Past (2012) 1 copy
araki 2002 1 copy
A日記 (1995) 1 copy
Okinawa 1 copy
いのちの乳房 (2010) 1 copy
恋愛 (1991) 1 copy
墨東エロス (1994) 1 copy
Seoul again "Memories" (2004) 1 copy
青い隕石 (1990) 1 copy
東京日記 (2002) 1 copy
東京観音 (1998) 1 copy
Midori (1987) 1 copy
Ikonta Story (1981) 1 copy
Sniper Shot (1981) 1 copy
I-Novel (1986) 1 copy
Taipei (1998) 1 copy
Love Hotel (2004) 1 copy
Documents 1 copy
On Photography (1989) 1 copy
Tokyo Bondage (2007) 1 copy
にゃらぁきぃ~ (1999) 1 copy
Sentimental Journey 2 (2015) 1 copy
69 Waikei (69YK) (2009) 1 copy
Tokyo Novelle (1995) 1 copy
Kekkai (2014) (1901) 1 copy
¿j¿ shash¿± (2014) 1 copy
Polart 1 copy
Tokyo Summer Story (2003) 1 copy
OO Nippon 1 copy
Tokyo 1 copy
The Peach Orchard (1991) 1 copy
Araki Crazy Old Man A (2016) 1 copy

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Birthdate
1940-05-25
Gender
male
Nationality
Japan
Birthplace
Minowa, Tokio
Places of residence
Tokyo, Japan
Education
Chiba University, Chiba
Occupations
photographer

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Reviews

The Spring/Summer 2001 Paris collection of renowned fashion designer Yoshiki Hishinuma was photographed by Araki, Japan's bad-boy of the photography community, and is presented here in this oversized book.
 
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petervanbeveren | 1 other review | Oct 23, 2023 |
The series consists of around 100 photographs taken around the year 1965, when Araki was working at advertising giant Dentsu. The photos, first shown at an exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in February 2011, are presented as a postcard-sized book, hidden in a Fuji photographic paper box replica, the same way Araki discovered his old prints.

“I’ve found a cabinet box, labelled “Theater of Love”. Opening it, there were about 150 prints inside. They must have been taken around ’65, back when I was clicking away on an Olympus Pen F, experimenting with thermal development, fooling around with printing and film developing techniques. The photos are a record of me, the women and the life and the places of that era. Seems like I called them “Theater of Love” in those days. But either way — good stuff. Good photos. You can’t get this with digital.”
— Nobuyoshi Araki
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petervanbeveren | Aug 6, 2023 |
Negaeropolis is a series of color photographs featuring subjects consistently found in Araki’s work: nudes, flowers, dolls, and the streets of Tokyo, among other scenes from the artist’s everyday life. In this new body of work, Araki has made photographs of images exactly as they appear on the film negatives. The inverted images, with their complementary hues and orange mask characteristic of negative film, appear simultaneously vibrant and yet somber, expressing how the two sides of film- positive and negative- are inextricably linked together, serving as a metaphor for yin and yang and Araki’s own personal view of life and death.

Limited edition of 300 copies.
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Works
238
Members
885
Popularity
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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
154
Languages
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Favorited
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