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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI(Tokio 1940 - lives and works in Tokio)
From: Quintett Carmen Marie.
Photograph, gelatin silver print, hand
painted. Probably later print. Signed on the
reverse: nobuyoshi ARAKI. Sheet size
30.4 x 30.3 cm on photopaper.
CHF 1 800 / 2 400
(€ 1 670 / 2 220)
3753*
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI(Tokio 1940 - lives and works in Tokio)
From: Quintett Carmen Marie.
Gelatin silver print on foam board. Proba-
bly later print. Signed on the label on the
reverse: ARAKI. Sheet size 60 x 40 cm.
CHF 2 500 / 3 500
(€ 2 310 / 3 240)
Nobuyoshi Araki was born as the son of a
shoe salesman in Tokyo in 1940. He studied
at Chiba University from 1959-1963 and
worked in an advertising company before
beginning his freelance career as a photo-
grapher.
Araki is one of the most well-known and
innovative photographers in Japan. His
early works were dedicated to press and
documentary photography and strongly
influenced by Brassai, Cartier-Bresson and
Godard; in addition to photos of children,
Araki documented his honeymoon and
published these pictures in the book “Sen-
timental Journey”. During the 1970s, Araki
departed from documentation and turned
to interpersonal themes. With his works, he
fathomed out the abysses of the human
soul and eroticism; particularly notable
among the latter is the series concerning
kinbaku, a Japanese form of bondage.
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