Nobuyoshi Araki
06 Oct 2005 - 22 Jan 2006
Araki: Self•Life•Death
One of Japan’s greatest living photographers.
6 October 2005 - 22 January 2006
Barbican Art Gallery
Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer – and certainly its most controversial.
This is the first major exhibition of Araki’s work to be held in London, and is the most comprehensive overview of his prolific career. With over 4,000 images on display, the show reflects Araki’s extraordinary breadth of work – from the shocking to the sublime – and includes new work never previously seen.
Influenced by Shunga, the erotic art of the Edo period (1603 – 1867), as well as the glossy imagery of contemporary culture, much of Araki’s work confronts taboo subjects such as sex, nudity and death head on. Subjects range from poetic scenes of old Tokyo, to sensual close-ups of exotic flowers and erotic photographs of kimono-clad women bound in rope.
Covering over forty years, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary talent of one of the most charismatic and prolific photographers working today.
www.barbican.org.uk
© Nobuyoshi Araki
From A Woman named Komari, 2002
One of Japan’s greatest living photographers.
6 October 2005 - 22 January 2006
Barbican Art Gallery
Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer – and certainly its most controversial.
This is the first major exhibition of Araki’s work to be held in London, and is the most comprehensive overview of his prolific career. With over 4,000 images on display, the show reflects Araki’s extraordinary breadth of work – from the shocking to the sublime – and includes new work never previously seen.
Influenced by Shunga, the erotic art of the Edo period (1603 – 1867), as well as the glossy imagery of contemporary culture, much of Araki’s work confronts taboo subjects such as sex, nudity and death head on. Subjects range from poetic scenes of old Tokyo, to sensual close-ups of exotic flowers and erotic photographs of kimono-clad women bound in rope.
Covering over forty years, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary talent of one of the most charismatic and prolific photographers working today.
www.barbican.org.uk
© Nobuyoshi Araki
From A Woman named Komari, 2002