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"The publication 'Impossible Love: Vintage Photographs' by ARAKI unites older series with more recent Polaroid photographs, and this high-quality photo book accompanies the current exhibition in Berlin, which runs until March 2019.
The outstanding design for an exhibition catalog, which is appropriate to the importance of the photographer, comes from Marc NAROSKA, Berlin." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"Nobuyoshi ARAKI is considered one of the most influential and widely discussed artists in the world, dealing with nudity, sexuality and the body in a radically realistic way, with his unrestricted view of his objects, equally touched and disturbed, extreme closeness and intimacy to the documented persons and situations make his photographs unique and revolutionary.
As one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography, ARAKI not only participates in the life of its protagonists, but is itself an elementary part of his paintings. In fact, he physically interacts with the photographs by tearing, cutting and reassembling them." (© for the used pictures in my webstore and the German text: NAROSKA, text free translated by Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street.
Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi ARAKI’s early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society, calling the moral responsibility of its members into question.
This book, 'Impossible Love. Vintage Photographs', combines ARAKI’s Tokyo series from his early works with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows—all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream.
The legendary ARAKI is one of the most influential and widely discussed artists today, one who deals with nakedness, sexuality and the body in a radical and realistic way. Through an extreme emotional and physical closeness with his subjects, he becomes not only part of their lives but plays a central role in his own photos, thus transcending voyeurism.
Together with Nan GOLDIN, Larry CLARK and Boris MIKHAILOV, ARAKI is considered one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography." (publisher's note)
Exhibition:
C/O Berlin, 8 December 2018 to 3 March 2019
The outstanding design for an exhibition catalog, which is appropriate to the importance of the photographer, comes from Marc NAROSKA, Berlin." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"Nobuyoshi ARAKI is considered one of the most influential and widely discussed artists in the world, dealing with nudity, sexuality and the body in a radically realistic way, with his unrestricted view of his objects, equally touched and disturbed, extreme closeness and intimacy to the documented persons and situations make his photographs unique and revolutionary.
As one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography, ARAKI not only participates in the life of its protagonists, but is itself an elementary part of his paintings. In fact, he physically interacts with the photographs by tearing, cutting and reassembling them." (© for the used pictures in my webstore and the German text: NAROSKA, text free translated by Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"A young woman with her legs spread wide; buttoned-up dressed workers on a city street.
Contrasting photos like these of intensely private scenes, and snapshots of nameless passers-by are Nobuyoshi ARAKI’s early commentary on the heterogeneity of Japanese society, calling the moral responsibility of its members into question.
This book, 'Impossible Love. Vintage Photographs', combines ARAKI’s Tokyo series from his early works with a selection of his recent Polaroid collages and newly developed slide shows—all of them exploring the contradictions between anonymity and intimacy, the public and private sphere, reality and dream.
The legendary ARAKI is one of the most influential and widely discussed artists today, one who deals with nakedness, sexuality and the body in a radical and realistic way. Through an extreme emotional and physical closeness with his subjects, he becomes not only part of their lives but plays a central role in his own photos, thus transcending voyeurism.
Together with Nan GOLDIN, Larry CLARK and Boris MIKHAILOV, ARAKI is considered one of the pioneers of intimate subjective photography." (publisher's note)
Exhibition:
C/O Berlin, 8 December 2018 to 3 March 2019
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Felix Hoffmann / c/o Berlin
- Book design
- Marc NAROSKA
- Format
- Half-linen bound HC (with dust jacket), 20,5 x 26 x 3 cm., 368 pp, 319 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German