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Nobuyoshi Araki - Shikijyo /  Sexual Desire - 1996
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Nobuyoshi Araki - Shikijyo / Sexual Desire - 1996

... Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most important photographers in Japan. The artist became famous mainly in the genre of nude photography. He lives and works in Tokyo.Araki was an enthusiastic admirer of Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His own career began in 1964 with pictures about children in the city, then Araki photographed his own honeymoon. From these photos the now legendary book Sentimental Journey. In the 1970s Araki broke from the press photography and the reportage photography and began to show the interpersonal. He documented the abysses of the soul and quickly found access to eroticism. Araki is an ambitious viewer of the environment and photographs daily. In Japan his photographs are partially censored for "obscenity", the artist ironically taking up the "black bars" of censorship in some of his books, censoring his books with brushes and paint themselves ...

No. 11817869

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Nobuyoshi Araki - Shikijyo /  Sexual Desire - 1996

Nobuyoshi Araki - Shikijyo / Sexual Desire - 1996

... Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most important photographers in Japan. The artist became famous mainly in the genre of nude photography. He lives and works in Tokyo.Araki was an enthusiastic admirer of Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His own career began in 1964 with pictures about children in the city, then Araki photographed his own honeymoon. From these photos the now legendary book Sentimental Journey. In the 1970s Araki broke from the press photography and the reportage photography and began to show the interpersonal. He documented the abysses of the soul and quickly found access to eroticism. Araki is an ambitious viewer of the environment and photographs daily. In Japan his photographs are partially censored for "obscenity", the artist ironically taking up the "black bars" of censorship in some of his books, censoring his books with brushes and paint themselves ...

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