Trent PARKE, Stephen GILL, Mimi PLUMB, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Takashi HOMMA, Masahisa FUKASE, Jack DAVISON, Robbie LAWRENCE, Gregory CREWDSON
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Araki was born in Shitaya-ku (now Taito-ku), Tokyo. Araki graduated from photography faculty at Chiba University and worked at advertising agency Dentsu as an commercial photographer. Here, Araki met his future wife, an essayist Yōko Araki. After they were married in 1971, Araki published a book of pictures of his wife taken during their honeymoon titled Sentimental Journey ( Yōko died in 1990). In 1972, Araki resigned from Dentsu and became a freelance photographer. His works are held in numerous museum collections including the Tate and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The master photographer recounts his life.
In “A Life in Photography”, Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s greatest living photographers, reflects on the most important stages of his life and career. In the form of an interview (led by Mayumi Uchida) and aided by photographs, Araki begins the twelve chapters recounting memories of his camera-loving father and his first encounters with photography, continues with his first successes in the 1960s, anecdotes about his beloved wife Yoko, the heyday period of the Japanese photography scene, meeting stars and personals idols such as Takeshi Kitano and Robert Frank, his obsessions and fixations, and talks about his later life, including the death of his cat Chiro and his ailing health.
The book opens with 48 pages of new, previously unpublished photographs and includes an in-depth chronological summary in the back.
Please note that all texts are only included in Japanese.
Koji TAKI, Takuma NAKAHIRA , Yutaka TAKANASHI, Takahiko OKADA, Daido MORIYAMA
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