Our Thursday series features must-read books from each branch of the art bookshop NADiff. This week's pick is "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017." NADiff BAITEN, the museum shop inside the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Ebisu, Tokyo (2nd floor, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Ebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo), introduces the book. :
■ "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
"Yoko made me become a photographer" (excerpt from the book's "Greetings")
Since beginning his career in the 1960s, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki has been highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad. To date, he has published over 500 photobooks spanning a wide range of themes and techniques.
This book is the exhibition catalog for "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-," currently being held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in commemoration of the museum's 20th anniversary, and features works themed around his wife, Yoko. Although the photographs vary in style, each one conveys Araki's relationship with Yoko and his deep love for her, including "Sentimental Journey," which captured his honeymoon with Yoko and became famous for his "Personal Photography Declaration"; "Meals," featuring sensual close-ups of Yoko's home-cooked meals; and "Skyscape" and "Posthumous Sky 2," which feature paintings of the sky photographed after Yoko's death. Yoko was both Araki's beloved wife and an important subject. Even after her death, she continues to have a profound influence on Araki's photography. Furthermore, under the title "One Photograph," this book features a selection of Araki photographs by a distinguished group of photographers, including Daido Moriyama, Miyako Ishiuchi, Seiichi Furuya, Gozo Yoshimasu, and even Yoko Araki herself (!), who wrote about each photograph. While the selections are invaluable, the essays, which convey their feelings toward Araki (and Yoko), are a must-read.
We hope you will come and see the exhibition to learn about the themes of "life and death" that exist in Araki's work, the relationship between photographer and subject that emerges through the existence of Yoko, and the nature of personal photography.
【Book Information】
"Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
Photography: Nobuyoshi Araki
Publisher: HeHe
Language: Japanese
Hardcover / 288 pages / B5 landscape
Release Date: July 25, 2017
■NADiff Official Website "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-" Purchase Page
【Exhibition Information】
"Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Museum's Opening: Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
Dates: July 25 - September 24
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2nd Floor Exhibition room
Address: Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 10:00-18:00 (until 20:00 on Thursdays and Fridays, last entry 30 minutes before closing)
Closed: Mondays (if a public holiday, the following Tuesday)
Admission fee: Adults 900 yen (720 yen), students 800 yen (640 yen), junior high and high school students and those 65 and over 700 yen (560 yen)
*Prices in parentheses are for groups of 20 or more
URL: https://topmuseum.jp/contents/exhibition/index-2795.html
■ "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
"Yoko made me become a photographer" (excerpt from the book's "Greetings")
Since beginning his career in the 1960s, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki has been highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad. To date, he has published over 500 photobooks spanning a wide range of themes and techniques.
This book is the exhibition catalog for "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-," currently being held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in commemoration of the museum's 20th anniversary, and features works themed around his wife, Yoko. Although the photographs vary in style, each one conveys Araki's relationship with Yoko and his deep love for her, including "Sentimental Journey," which captured his honeymoon with Yoko and became famous for his "Personal Photography Declaration"; "Meals," featuring sensual close-ups of Yoko's home-cooked meals; and "Skyscape" and "Posthumous Sky 2," which feature paintings of the sky photographed after Yoko's death. Yoko was both Araki's beloved wife and an important subject. Even after her death, she continues to have a profound influence on Araki's photography. Furthermore, under the title "One Photograph," this book features a selection of Araki photographs by a distinguished group of photographers, including Daido Moriyama, Miyako Ishiuchi, Seiichi Furuya, Gozo Yoshimasu, and even Yoko Araki herself (!), who wrote about each photograph. While the selections are invaluable, the essays, which convey their feelings toward Araki (and Yoko), are a must-read.
We hope you will come and see the exhibition to learn about the themes of "life and death" that exist in Araki's work, the relationship between photographer and subject that emerges through the existence of Yoko, and the nature of personal photography.
【Book Information】
"Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
Photography: Nobuyoshi Araki
Publisher: HeHe
Language: Japanese
Hardcover / 288 pages / B5 landscape
Release Date: July 25, 2017
■NADiff Official Website "Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-" Purchase Page
【Exhibition Information】
"Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Museum's Opening: Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey 1971-2017-"
Dates: July 25 - September 24
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2nd Floor Exhibition room
Address: Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Hours: 10:00-18:00 (until 20:00 on Thursdays and Fridays, last entry 30 minutes before closing)
Closed: Mondays (if a public holiday, the following Tuesday)
Admission fee: Adults 900 yen (720 yen), students 800 yen (640 yen), junior high and high school students and those 65 and over 700 yen (560 yen)
*Prices in parentheses are for groups of 20 or more
URL: https://topmuseum.jp/contents/exhibition/index-2795.html
