Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki by Araki

There's plenty more fine work in the Japanese master, as this collection of more than 600 pages in a limited series of 2,500 copies clearly reveals. Araki's triumph is pushing back the boundaries of photo-art in a country as closed and conservative as Japan. Taschen's achievement has been to pare down his many thousands of photographs to 1,000 shots to tell the story of Nobuyoshi Araki in the ultimate retrospective collection of his work.

Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women, often prostitutes, and often tied in bondage in what the Japanese call kinbaku, the Japanese art of rope-tying, everything about his work, as indeed this collection, is highly provocative and original. Nobuyoshi Araki is obsessed with women and... MORE

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