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Araki (Taschen 25th Anniversary Series)

Araki (Taschen 25th Anniversary Series)
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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special budget abridged edition! "This book reveals everything about me. It's been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death-that'll be my epitaph." -Araki The subject is Japanese photographer Araki, a man who talks about life through photographs. His powerful oeuvre, decades' worth of images, has been pared down to 540 pages of photographs which tell the story of Araki and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes (kinbaku, Japanese rope-tying art) and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender; a deeply personal artist, Araki is not afraid of his emotions nor of showing them to the world. This large-format special budget edition includes most of the picture material from the original 2000 ? limited edition, for only 49,99 ?! Interviews by J?r?me Sans Extensive bibliography and biography section

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #553968 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-01
  • Original language: French, Japanese, German, English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 557 pages

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Review
"This book reveals everything about me. It's been a 60-year contract. Photography is love and death-that'll be my epitaph."

About the Author
About the photographer: Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940 and was given a camera, at the age of 12, by his father. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photography Book, which he produced in a limited edition and sent to friends, art critics and people randomly selected from the phone book. Over the years, Araki’s bold unabashed photographs have been the object of a great deal of censorship, especially in his native Japan, a fact that has not hindered him or diminished his influence in the least. To date, Araki has published more than 250 books of his work. TASCHEN’s Araki is the most comprehensive and lavish volume yet.

About the Author: Jerome Sans is currently the Associate Director of the Palais de Tokyo Contemporary Art Center in Paris. He has mounted many exhibitions in France and abroad as an independent curator. Some of his recent projects include "Le Printemps de Cahor" Cahor, France (1997 – 1998), "Taipei Biennia l- The Sky is the Limit", Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2000), among various projects in Asia dealing with Asian artists. He has been the Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee); editor of Gallery Magazine, and will be the commissioner for the French Pavilion in the next Venice Biennial. He is also a board member for the Benesse Prize of the Venice Biennial. Jerome Sans has worked previously with Araki in "Le Printemps de Cahor" (1998).

Customer Reviews

Tastefully Done Erotica or Pornography5
Araki, currently Japan's most notarized and sought photographer, blurs the line between obscenity and art. However there is no denying that ALL of his works are photographed with the precision and skill that can challenge even the works of Robert Mapplethorp.



This particular book, assembled by Taschen, is perfectly executed. All facets of Araki's work are prominently displayed. The cityscapes flow with the eye's movement, the images of flowers are so sharp your nose will be fooled, the nudes capture the models' spirit, and most importantly works from Araki's first book "Sentimental Journey" and "Winter Journey" (images of his marriage, honeymoon & death of his wife) are contained within and elicit emotion like no other.



I highly recommend this publication for anyone who has a serious interest in Erotica, art and/or photography. Again these images are not for the faint of heart: fornication, S & M, prostitution, deprivation, are just to name a few of the subjects!

A good mix from his work4
This book is heavy, thick, very well printed and in a beautifull box...
The content is basically what I was looking for: a little bit from all his work, in high quality prints.
So, i't's nice if you are looking for "ONE" book about Araki's work.
The bad part is that the order of the pics is nosense, I thinks this is because Araki thinks that the "time" and moment where the pic was done is irelevant.

oh! lucky guy...5
Araki: Taschen 25th Anniverary Series; ISBN-10: 3822838233.

Araki - I loved Araki's work from the first discovery.
His celebrations of life, sex, death and the base functions are an inspiration - he touches my soul.
Everyday, happysad, bittersweet, joyfulmelancholy - and occasionally downright dirty.
Extra-ordinary, seemingly spontaneous depictions, studies of a 20/21 century man and the world he lives in - the life he leads.
Honest, enthusiastic statements of the things he (we) find dominant in our lives - all the serious trivia we sometimes fail to acknowledge - often deny; flowers, bondage, buildings, erotica, food, lovers, reptiles, sadness in loss, exhibitionism, the whole gangbang of life.
Never mundane - no matter the object/subject of his attention - his desire - the joy of living percolates through his work.
He is bold, daring and original - often opening the door to intimacy - unleashing a rush of deepset erotic imagery.
This book is a rich weave of ideas and experimentation - a summary of his life's work to publication - an anthology of his work to date.
It's the joy of a boy retained in the man - oh! what a lucky guy.