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Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, b.1940)
LOT ID: 65731
Cosmoco (+ Tamao Sato; 2 works), 1998

Polaroid
2.95 х 2.76 in. cm.
Signed
Lot description
Nobuyoshi Araki, Cosmoco, 1998. Polaroid, 2.95 x 2.76 inches (7.5 x 7 cm). Signed. Framed.

Nobuyoshi Araki, Tamao Sato, 1998. Polaroid, 3.11 x 3.03 inches (7.9 x 7.7 cm). Signed. Framed.

Nobuyoshi Araki, born in 1940 in Tokyo, is known as Japan’s greatest contemporary photographer. He is considered one of the most prolific artists dead or alive in Japan and around the world, and has published over 350 books of his work. His photographs are often erotic, and sometimes seen as pornographic. He is best known for his photography books entitled Sentimental Journey, Tokyo Lucky Holy and Shino. He also gained exposure when he photographed Bjork for the cover of her 1997 album, Telegram. In addition, Araki has contributed to the Sunrise anime series called Brain Powered.

In 1999, The Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art held a retrospective exhibition of his photographs. The museum's chief curator, Junichi Shioda, eloquently described Araki’s oeuvre stating, “Araki’s photographs are like a mirror, reflecting the reality in which we live…[this reality] includes Tokyo, a city of obscene energy and inhuman emptiness; the noisy clamor of the entertainment districts, the casual circumstances of everyday life; sensual nude women; straight-arrow businessmen; love and sex; the sky and flowers; life and death."

Araki’s work is held in numerous museum collections internationally, including at the Tate in London, England and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in California.
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