TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition!
Special budget abridged edition!
"This book reveals everything about me. It's been a 60-year
contract. Photography is love and death-that'll be my epitaph."
-Araki
The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life
through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has
been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki
and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work.
Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied
up with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope-tying art) and of colorful, sensual
flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses
photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki
seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an
embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once
shocking and mysteriously tender; a deeply personal artist, Araki is not
afraid of his emotions nor of showing them to the world.
Interviews by Jerome Sans
Extensive bibliography and biography section |