Nobuyoshi Araki, an important contemporary Japanese photographer, synthesizes classic photographic genres (still life, portrait, fashion, landscape, abstract) in many of his best images, pornographic photographer, my influence photographer to make me thinking something difference, something secrets, something that characteristic, something touch people heart. His images of flowers and women, in particular, are darkly erotic; he presents a perverse vision of beauty with a scent of corruption. Behind even the most conventional of Araki’s images there is a sense of something ‘else’ transmitting an arresting and ominous quality.
Why Araki. Araki is Araki, he connects love and photography through feelings. His photography are relationship between life and death. He has strong individuals with his photographs. Araki’s work so special is his very personal perspective, especially of women, photography, sex, life, and death. Sex is just a means of establish a moo, rather than a finality. The way he approaches women is very difference from others. He prefer to shoot prostitute than model, I think because he want to make something difference meaning in itself. If he shoot model, his photos will be not special like his own photos. Same style from others photographer but he make difference object to make difference meaning. And, Their meaning make symbolizes all the charming and essential sides of life, whether as he take photograph of his wife. All of his photos about his wife they have lots of meaning between relationship, sex and death of his wife. He has one collection about his wife, Yoko. It’s like a photos of her death when they went to travel together. And every time when Araki taken her photos, it’s like her completely getting die from her uterus cancer. I think it was not only about capturing the image of a woman but also the portrait of a relationship.
Araki’s work was never prosecuted , and that, according to the catalogue, the sum of Araki’s fines over four decades total 300,000 yen, or about the cost of a couple of good lenses. Araki has escaped real persecution by tethering the limits of what is tolerated, stretching without breaking the rules, and playing the rebel without constituting a serious threat. If Araki didn’t exist, the system would have had to invent him. Araki has a lots of lots of exhibitions in his works. I had seen his work from last year in Thailand. His works related about what artist look through Thailand. He taken photos with Thai prostitutes. That’s make me completely love his work. He never get away from his strong identity even he been to Thailand! And his images made me stop and look at their images for a little longer in the exhibition.
Araki made me know that just only the wind blowing woman hair, that’s means sexy and erotic in other way. That’s make me can play more with my photos about women. Not even pornography or erotic photography but they can make really good photographs of women also.
The things make to change way I see from his wo4rk is his personal journey through life, an open window on his private fantasies of images, dreams, lost up and down moments. His photography are like a mirror, reflecting the reality on which my live. His photos always make me surprised and fascinated with his “genius”.
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