About the Author Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work. Read more
K**A
but this book shows Nobuyoshi is obsessed with the worst of that trade
Nobuyoshi is famous as a photographic chronicler of the seedy, underworld sex trade in Tokyo. Tokyo has a legitimate, legal sex trade, but this book shows Nobuyoshi is obsessed with the worst of that trade. Graphic photos abound, many lacking any pretense of art. This is a huge book, filled with glamour-less black and white photos evoking the lurid nature of its subject matter. After awhile you just shrug and put the book down, especially when Nobu photographs himself having sex. One wonders why he is considered a national treasure in Japan.
W**N
Five Stars
great work from the greatest living photographer in japan...right in his wheelhouse
R**N
this is a great crosscut of his mass of work
Araki, strange as ever... this is a great crosscut of his mass of work. Smaller book than I thought though!
W**E
The photographs in the book are not exceptional other than they are taken during a point in history and are nice documentation.
The history of this time period in Japan is interesting. The photographs in the book are not exceptional other than they are taken during a point in history and are nice documentation. Very few of them are more than snapshots, but given the subject matter, it's hard to expect more. Overall I much prefer the text and the context it provides to the pictures.
J**I
Five Stars
Great to see the other side of tokyo back in the day.
M**O
Five Stars
Amazing..
T**L
another quality tascam product
this is a crazy collection of atruly unique genre
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