Araki : love and death /

Araki : love and death /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Araki, Nobuyoshi, 1940-
Imprint:	Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana, c2010.
Description:	397 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:	Italian English
Subject:	Araki, Nobuyoshi, -- 1940- -- Exhibitions. Araki, Nobuyoshi, -- 1940- Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8510741

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Love and death
Other authors / contributors:	Bernasconi, Francesca. Namioka, Fuyumi, 1956- Museo d'arte (Lugano, Switzerland)
ISBN:	9788836617371 8836617379
Notes:	Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo d'arte città di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland, Oct. 23, 2010-Feb. 20, 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-396). Text in Italian and English.
Summary:	"Japan's most famous photographer, and one of photography's most prolific bookmakers, Nobuyoshi Araki is notorious for his erotic photographs of women in bondage. Japanese bondage, which differs from western bondage in its orchestration of knots and binding to arouse specific points upon the body, offers visual as well as erotic rewards that Araki has scrutinized with great zeal. Araki is able to bestow eroticism upon all manner of natural imagery, but is also celebrated for series such as Sentimental Journey and Winter Journey, which record his marriage and the death of his wife. Driven by an attraction to the uncensored facts of Eros and Thanatos, Araki has always made humanity the center of his concerns; but at several junctures in his career, the authorities have evinced indifference to such motives, removing his work from sale and arresting curators for exhibiting his work ... With over 300 photographs, this monumental survey provides a careful selection from his most important photographic cycles, from Satchin and Sentimental Journey to Winter Journey, Cityscapes Polart, Sensual Flowers, Bondage and others, to his most recent works"--http://www.artbook.com/9788836617371.html

Table of Contents:

Nobuyoshi Araki : reality discovered through photography / Bruno Corà
Nobuyoshi Araki, three sentimental journeys / Fuyumi Namioka
On the death of Chiro : a tug at the heartstrings / Philippe Forest
The insatiable : Nobuyoshi Araki in the context of western art / Guido Comis
Conversation with Nobuyoshi Araki / Fuyumi Namioka.