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About Japanese photographer, Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940 in Minowa, Tokyo)
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (jap. 荒木 経惟) is one of Japan's most important photographers. The artist gained fame especially in the genre of nude photography. The son of a shoe salesman, he studied photography at Chiba University from 1959 to 1963. Early on he admired the French photographers BRASSAI and Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as well as Jean-Luc Godard. His own career began in 1964 with pictures of children in the city, then he photographed his own honeymoon. From these photos he created the now legendary book 'Sentimental Journey'. In the 1970s he broke away from press and reportage photography and began to show the interpersonal. He documented the abysses of the soul and quickly found access to eroticism. One of his most famous models is the Icelandic singer Björk, who admires his work. Among other things, he created pictures for her album 'Telegram', which was released in 1996.
Photo books by as well as with works by Nobuyoshi ARAKI (a selection from over 350 titles)
- 'Sentmental Journey' (1971, 2001, 2016, 2017); 'Okinawa. Sentimental Journey Continued' (1971); 'Photobook 3' (1973); 'Chiro My Love' (1994, 2008); 'Works of Nobuyoshi Araki' (12 Bände, 1996/97); 'Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin' (1997); 'Tokyo Novelle' (1997); 'Tokyo Comedy' (1997); 'Tokyo Lucky Hole' (1997, 2015); 'Tokyo Still Life' (1999); 'Skyscapes' (1999); 'Araki' (2002, 2004, 2014, 2017, 2020); 'Self, Life, Death' (2005, 2008); 'Marvelous Tales of Black Ink / Bokujo Kitan' (2008, 2014); 'stern Fotografie, Heft 56: Araki' (2009); 'Tokio nostalgia' (2010); 'Inochi no Chibusa' (2010); 'Bondage' (2012, 2023); 'Araki Teller, Teller Araki' (2014); 'Sacchin' (2016); 'Hi-Nikki (Non-Diary Diary, 2016, 2017); 'Last Year's Photographs' (2016); 'Theater of Love' (2017); 'Impossible Love. Vintage Photographs' (2018); 'Nobuyoshi Araki' (2021); 'A Retrospective' (2023);
Further books by and with works by Nobuyoshi ARAKI
- 'Tokyo Monogatari / Tokyo Story' (1989); 'Shikikei' (1991); 'Akt Tokyo. 1971–1991' (1992); 'Genshoku no machi' (1992); 'Living Cats in Tokyo' (1993); 'Kids' (1994); 'Love Labyrinth' (1995); 'Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994' (1995); 'Arakitronics' (1996); 'Kakyoku' (1997); 'Sentimental Photography' (1998); 'Shijyo, Tokyo. Marketplace of Emotions' (1998); 'Summer Retrographs' (1998); 'Visions of Japan' (1998); 'Cat Postcard Book' (1999); 'Nostalgia Tokyo' (1999); 'Shino. Arakiss' (2000); '60' (2000); 'Viaggio Sentimentale' (2000); 'Taipei' (2000); 'Araki in Wien' (2000); 'Mon Journal D'ete' (2003); 'Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection 1963-2002' (2003); 'Kaori' (2004); 'The Flower as Image' (2004); 'Love Hotel' (2004); 'Subway Love' (2006); 'Dirty Pretty Things' (2007); 'Araki Gold' (2008); 'Kinbaku' (2008); 'Silent Wishes' (2008); 'Araki's Jewelry and Flower (Yami No Hana, 2008); 'Io vita morte' (2011); 'Arachy Photobook Mania' (2012); 'It Was Once a Paradise' (2012); 'To The Past' (2012); 'Nobuyoshi Araki' (2012); 'Road' (2014); 'Photography for the Afterlife' (2014); 'Monochrome Paradise' (2015); 'Eros Diary' (2016); 'Crazy Old Man A' (2016); 'Photo Crazy' (2017); 'My Love' (2017); 'Tokyo in Autumn' (2017); Araki-esque' (2018); 'The Araki Effect' (2019); 'Polarnography' (2019); 'Leben und Tod' (2020, zusammen mit Juergen TELLER); 'Shi Nikki (Private Diary)' (2001);
Awards
- 2008: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst;
2012: Mainichi-Kunstpreis;
Exhibitions (a selection in Europa)
- 1992: 'Akt Tokyo. 1971 – 1991', Camera Austria, Forum Stadtpark, Graz;
1995–1996: 'Tokyo Novelle', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg;
2007–2008: 'Araki Gold: Noboyushi Araki a Roma', Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma;
2008: 'Kinbaku', Jablonka Galerie, Berlin sowie 'Araki Meets Hokusai', kestnergesellschaft, Hannover;
2010: 'Kinbaku', Jablonka Galerie, Köln;
2014: 'Araki Teller Teller Araki', Galerie OstLicht, Wien;
2018–2019: 'Impossible Love. Vintage Photographs', C/O Berlin, Berlin;