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3752*

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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