Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most influencial and controversial photographers of our time and finally a definitive collection of his art will be released in the coming months. Nobuyoshi Araki : Self, Life, Death will be published by Phaidon and retail for $75.00 us. Araki's photos range from the beautiful, as seen here, to the exotic and sometime disturbing. His images are primarily of women and his unique fascination with bondage, death and the sex trade in Tokyo. I know that some will be turned off by certain topic matter, but the art itself in truly amazing, from the crisp B + W to the vivid use of color and light. The book will contain 1,200 photographs and the first English translation of the artists writings. There have been past releases of photo books, but they are all imported from Japan and are in the Japanese language. The 2 that I own I was lucky enough to have translated by a friend from Japan and hopefully the English release will be of the same quality as the imported books.