Araki. Love and Death

Nobuyoshi Araki ranks today as one of the most well-known and celebrated artist photographers in the world with more than four hundred publications to his name. In addition to the autobiographical series – including Sentimental Journey / Winter Journey, which documents the relationship between the artist and his wife Yoko from the day of their marriage till the tragic illness and premature death of Yoko in 1990 – the present volume documents the urban landscapes, the suggestive images of flowers and food, the poetic series dedicated to the sky and, of course, the series of female nudes and bondage which are, more than any other of his subjects, so clearly linked to his renown.
Among his latest works, are included in the catalogue the series dedicated to his beloved cat Chiro and a series of photographs over which the artist intervenes with calligraphy, thus making them unique.
The sometime extremely dense layout of the present publication, with 745 photographs, mirrors Araki’s urgency to capture the continuos transformation of reality, through a continuous photographic documentation.