Wikipedia

Nobuyoshi Araki

This article is about the photographer. For other uses, seeAraki (surname).

Nobuyoshi Araki(Hoang mộc kinh duy,Araki Nobuyoshi,born May 25, 1940),professionally known by themononymArākii(アラーキー),is a Japanesephotographerandcontemporary artist.Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.[a][1][2][3]

Nobuyoshi Araki
Born(1940-05-25)May 25, 1940(age 84)
Tokyo,Japan
NationalityJapanese
Other namesArākii
Known forPhotographer and contemporary artist
Notable workOver 350 photography books, includingSentimental Journey,Tokyo Lucky Hole,andShino
Websitewww.arakinobuyoshi.comEdit this at Wikidata

Early life and education

edit

Araki was born inTokyoon May 25, 1940.[4]He studied film and photography atChiba Universityfrom 1959, receiving a degree in 1963.[4]He worked at the advertising agencyDentsu,where, in 1968, he met his future wife, the essayistYōko Aoki[Wikidata].[4]

Art career

edit

Araki is one of the most prolific Japanese artists.[1][5][6]Many of his photographs are erotic, straddling a line between art and pornography.[7]Among his photography books areSentimental Journey(1971), andTokyo Lucky Hole(1990).Sentimental Journey"1972–1992" is adiaryof life with his wife Yōko, who died of ovarian cancer in 1990. The first part ofSentimental Journeyshows the couple embarking on married life—their honeymoon and sexual relations.[8]Pictures taken during Yoko's last days were published inWinter Journey.

ParrandBadgerinclude four of Araki's books in the first volume of their photobook history:[9]Zerokkusu Shashincho 24(Xeroxed Photo Album),Senchimentaru na Tabi(Sentimental Journey),Tokyo Lucky Hole,andShokuji(The Banquet).

Araki contributed photography to theSunriseanime seriesBrain Powerd.

In 1981, Araki directedHigh School Girl Fake Diary(Nữ cao sinh ngụy nhật ký,Jokōsei nise nikki),aroman pornofilm, for the studioNikkatsu.[10]The film was a disappointment to Araki's fans and to fans of thepink filmgenre.[11]

TheIcelandicmusicianBjörkis an admirer of Araki's work, and served as one of his models.[2][12]At her request, he photographed the cover and inner sleeve pages of her 1997remixalbumTelegram.More recently, he has photographed pop singerLady Gaga.[12]

In 2004, an American director, Travis Klose, released a documentary about Araki calledArakimentari,which discusses the artist's lifestyle and work.

Araki was diagnosed withprostate cancerin 2008; he underwent successful surgery to remove the tumor.[13]

In 2010, Araki's cat, Chiro, died of old age.[14]

In October 2013, Araki lost vision in his right eye due to a retinal artery obstruction. The 74-year-old artist used the experience as an inspiration to exhibitLove on the left eye,held on 21 June 2014 at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.[15]

Commissioned by Italian luxury labelBottega Veneta,Araki photographedSaskia de Brauwand Sung Jin Park inTokyofor the brand's spring/summer 2015 campaign.[16]

For the European Cultural Centre Araki made in 2018 the limited special edition photo series: “Monstrous Paradise”, representing Araki’s feelings about life in Tokyo.

Controversy

edit

Araki is known for his intimate access to models. When asked about this in 2011, he bragged that he gained access throughsex.[17]

In April 2018, Kaori, a model who posed for Araki from 2001 to 2016, wrote a blog post about her relationship with Araki[18]in which she accused him of financial and artistic exploitation.[19]Kaori stated that "she worked without a contract, was forced to take part in explicit shoots in front of strangers, was not regularly paid and that her nude images were often used without her consent."[19]In 2017, when she requested that he stop republishing or exhibiting some photographs of her, Araki wrote to Kaori, warning that she had no rights.[18]She states that the experience led to psychological trauma and ill health.[19]Kaori stated that theMe Too movementhad encouraged her to speak out.[18]The accusations have raised questions about the power dynamics between a photographer and his subject.[18]In order to raise awareness of Kaori's claims, the activist group Angry Asian Girls Association protested the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Araki atC/O BerlinDecember 2018.[20]

Awards

edit

Publications

edit
A small percentage of Araki's photobooks[b]
  • Zerokkusu Shashincho 1–25= Xeroxed Photo Album 1–25. A series of books self-produced using a photocopier, published from 1970 onwards, each in an edition of 70 copies.[1]
  • Senchimentaru na Tabi.= Sentimental Journey.[1]
    • Senchimentaru na Tabi.Tokyo: self-published, 1971. Title and text in Japanese. 100 black and white photographs.
    • Sentimental Journy.Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2016.ISBN978-4-309-27700-4.Facsimile edition. With an introduction in Japanese and English by Araki. Housed in a slipcase with a postcard.
  • Tokyo Lucky Hole.
    • Tokyo Lucky Hole 1983–1985 Shinjuku Kabuki-cho district.Tokyo: Ohta Shuppan, 1990. 272 pages.
    • Tokyo Lucky Hole.Cologne:Taschen.With texts by Akira Suei and Akihito Yasumi translated into English, French and German. 704 pages. 1997,ISBN9783822881897;2005,ISBN9783822846810;2015,ISBN9783836556385.
  • Shokuji= The Banquet. Tokyo: Magazine House, 1993. 32 black and white and 28 colour photographs. With a text by Araki.
  • Self, Life, Death.New York:Phaidon,2005. Edited by Akiko Miki.ISBN9780714845555.
  • Photography for the Afterlife.Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2014.ISBN978-4582278118.With an essay byMario Perniola,"Araki's Hell".
  • Tokyo.Munich:Pinakothek der Moderne;Only Photography, 2017. 28 diptychs. With essays. Edition of 300 copies.
  • Araki by Araki(in English, French, and German). Cologne: Taschen. 2014.ISBN978-3836551120.OCLC917170400.A 560-page retrospective survey of Araki's body of work selected by the artist.
  • Monstrous Paradise.Personal Structures Art Projects #11.European Cultural Centre, 2018.ISBN978-90-829434-0-5.

Films

edit

Films by Araki

edit
  • High School Girl Fake Diary(Nữ cao sinh ngụy nhật ký,Jokōsei nise nikki)(1981)
  • Ai no Shinsekai(Ái の tân thế giới,Ai no Shinsekai)(1994)
  • Flower Rondo 3(2002) – documentary short
  • Flower Rondo 4:Kakyoku(2003) – documentary short
  • Painting Flowers in the Sky Over the Balcony(2004) – documentary
  • Fuyuharu(2004) – documentary short

Films about Araki

edit
  • A Live DVD Araki Overseas 1997 – 2000(2002) – documentary
  • Arakimentari(2004) – documentary directed by Travis Klose and produced by Troopers Films (Regis Trigano andDylan Verrechia).

Films based on Araki's life

edit
  • Tokyo Biyori(1997) – a biographical drama based on the life of Yoko Araki, the wife of Nobuyoshi Araki. Written by Nobuyoshi Araki and Ryo Iwamatsu, and directed byNaoto Takenaka.The Araki couple were portrayed by Naoto Takenaka andMiho Nakayama.Araki makes a cameo as a train conductor.[28]

Exhibitions

edit
  • 2005:Araki,Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.[29]
  • 2006:Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary),Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.[29]
  • 2008:Friends and Family,Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.[29]
  • 2009:Araki,Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.[29]
  • 2010:Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,San Francisco[30]
  • 2015:The Pistils Waltz,Gallery 51, Antwerp.[31]
  • 2018:The Incomplete Araki,Museum of Sex,New York City
  • 2018:Nobuyoshi Araki: KATA-ME,Rat Hole Gallery[32]
  • 2018:Nobuyoshi Araki: Monstrous Paradise,RuArts Gallery, Moscow
  • 2022:Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma,Hamiltons Gallery, London[33]

Collections

edit

Araki's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

Notes

edit
  1. ^The number depends on such things as how new compilations of previously published are counted. But as of 2005Kōtarō Iizawacounted 357 inAraki-bon! 1970–2005(Hoang mộc bổn! 1970–2005,A Book of Araki Books! 1970–2005)(Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2006;ISBN4-568-12071-3). Despite the alternative title in English, the book is only in Japanese.
  2. ^『 đông kinh エレジー』 (Tōkyō erejī,1981), 『 đông kinh は, thu 』 (Tōkyō wa, aki,withYōko Araki[ja],1992), 『 nguyên sắc の nhai 』 (Genshoku no machi,1992), 『 đông kinh miêu đinh 』 (Tōkyō nekomachi=Living Cats in Tokyo,1993), 『ラブ・ユー・トーキョー』 (Rabu yū Tōkyō=Love You Tokyo,withKineo Kuwabara,1993), 『 kinh đô bạch tình ラブ・ラビリンス』 (Kyōto hakujō: Rabu rabirinsu=Love Labyrinth,1996), 『 thượng hải quy りのアラーキー』 (Shanhai kaeri no Arākī,1998), 『 đông kinh mộ tình 』 (Tōkyō bojō=Tokyo bojou,1999), 『 tả chân tư tình chủ nghĩa 』 (Shashin shijōshugi,2000), 『 phi vân các ものがたり』 (Hiunkaku monogatari=Hiunkaku Story,2005), 『 vãng sinh tả tập 』(Ōjō shashū=Ōjō shashū: Photography for the Afterlife), 『 lặc viên 』(Rakuen,2011),『 hoang mộc bổn! 1970–2005』 (Arakibon! 1970–2005=A Book of Araki Books! 1970–2005,2006). The last, edited byKōtarō Iizawa,has anobithat reads “357 sách!”, i.e. "357 books!".

References

edit
  1. ^abcde"Araki Nobuyoshi: An Artistic Rebel, Unbowed".20 February 2017.
  2. ^abFarago, Jason (28 February 2018)."A Maverick of Japanese Photography, Bound Tight to Ritual".The New York Times.
  3. ^"Joshua Decter on Nobuyoshi Araki".www.artforum.com.February 1998.
  4. ^abcLynne Warren (15 November 2005).Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-volume set.Routledge. pp. 50–.ISBN978-1-135-20536-2.
  5. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki".SFMOMA.
  6. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki: Untitled (1997)".Phaidon.
  7. ^Moshakis, Alex (8 May 2013)."Is Nobuyoshi Araki's photography art or porn?".The Guardian.
  8. ^"Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki".invisiblephotographer.25 July 2012.
  9. ^Martin Parr;Gerry Badger(2004).The Photobook: A History, Volume I.London: Phaidon. p. 274,286.ISBN978-0-7148-4285-1.
  10. ^Sharp, Jasper (2008).Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema.Guildford: FAB Press. p. 218.ISBN978-1-903254-54-7.
  11. ^Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998).Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films.Miami: Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 196.ISBN1-889288-52-7.
  12. ^ab"Five celebrities shot by the notorious photographer Araki".28 May 2017.
  13. ^Kurt Easterwood, "Araki's latest work born of his fight with cancer",Japanexposures.com, 7 October 2009. Accessed October 24, 2010.
  14. ^"Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki × Chiro 'Japan's Most Famous Cat'".
  15. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki: Love on the Left Eye".
  16. ^Alessandra Turra (December 30, 2014),Nobuyoshi Araki Lenses Bottega Veneta CampaignWomen's Wear Daily.
  17. ^Frank, Priscilla (February 21, 2018)."Will Nobuyoshi Araki Be Photography's Last Legendary Dirty Old Man? (NSFW)".The Huffington Post.
  18. ^abcdRich, Motoko (May 5, 2018)."When an Erotic Photographer's Muse Becomes His Critic".The New York Times.RetrievedMay 6,2018.
  19. ^abcShiraishi, Sakiko (April 25, 2018)."#MeToo Japan: What happened when women broke their silence".BBC News.RetrievedMay 6,2018.
  20. ^Selvin, Claire (December 10, 2018)."'Are You Sure Your Knowledge Is Correct?': Asian Women's Group Protests Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in Berlin ".ARTnews.RetrievedFebruary 22,2019.
  21. ^"Araki's World - Solo Exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki".
  22. ^"The Lucie Awards | Nobuyoshi Araki".
  23. ^Look Japan.Look Japan. 1991.
  24. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki".Artuner.26 July 2013.
  25. ^"Reply to a parliamentary question"(PDF)(in German). p. 1875.Retrieved26 January2013.
  26. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki".Retrieved21 July2022.
  27. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki".Retrieved21 July2022.
  28. ^"Tokyo biyori (1997)".Internet Movie Database (IMDb).Retrieved11 November2019.
  29. ^"Exposed Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870".San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
  30. ^"The Pistils Waltz on artnet".www.artnet.com.
  31. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki 2018 Exhibitions Rathole Gallery".www.ratholegallery.com.
  32. ^Barrios Carbonell, Federica (31 May 2022)."Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma".Retrieved21 July2022.
  33. ^Nobuyoshi Araki collectionat the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016.
  34. ^Tate."Nobuyoshi Araki born 1940 - Tate".Tate.
  35. ^sfmoma.orgArchived2010-07-28 at theWayback Machine
  36. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Cube #102, 1994".Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
  37. ^"Untitled (C-58-17-1) - The Art Institute of Chicago".Art Institute of Chicago.1973.
  38. ^"Nobuyoshi Araki 1940".Science Museum, London.Accessed 3 March 2018.
  39. ^Grrr.nl."Nobuyoshi Araki".Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
  40. ^"Artists A-Z::: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main".Museum für Moderne Kunst.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-03-02.Retrieved2018-03-02.
  41. ^"Street Life & Home Stories.Photographs from the Goetz Collection - Sammlung Goetz".Goetz Collection.Archived fromthe originalon 2018-03-02.Retrieved2018-03-02.
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related toNobuyoshi_Araki.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nobuyoshi_Araki&oldid=1258745701"