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Nobuyoshi Araki Author: Ian Jeffrey

ISBN: 9780714861166 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 196 Published: 6 May 2011 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 32.2 x 26.0 x 2.6 Description: Edited by Akiko Miki, Yoshiko Isshiki and Tomoko Sato with an essay by Akiko Miki

Born in 1940, Araki is the contemporary of Japan's other great postwar photographers - Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu, and yet he epitomizes a new era and a new approach. Where the work of Moriyama and Tomatsu was inflected by the experience of war, atomic devastation and the humiliations of American occupation - which found expression in disintegrated, abstracted black and white - for Araki, the war was in the past. His photographic vocabulary was influenced by the vivid colours and glossy imagery of the new commercial culture. Until 1972, he worked for the Dentsu Advertising Agency.

Araki was different in making his own life and feelings the central subject of his work: he didn't report on the world around him, like Moriyama, but on himself. Even when photographing the urban landscape, Araki rarely strays from his immediate neighbourhood in Tokyo. His first book, Sentimental Journey (1971), an intimate account of his honeymoon with his wife Yoko, heralded the beginning of forty years of 'I-photography' (a word he derived from the 'I-novel' a form of popula...

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