Nobuyoshi Araki

Araki was born in Tokyo on May 25, 1940.{{cite book|author=Lynne Warren|title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-volume set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31VsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=15 November 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-20536-2|pages=50–}} He studied film and photography at Chiba University from 1959, receiving a degree in 1963. He worked at the advertising agency Dentsu, where, in 1968, he met his future wife, the essayist {{Interlanguage link|qid=Q11618753|Yōko Aoki}}.

Araki is one of the most prolific Japanese artists.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Nobuyoshi_Araki|title=Nobuyoshi Araki|website=SFMOMA}}{{cite web|url=http://www.phaidon.com/store/collectors-editions/nobuyoshi-araki-untitled-1997-9780714846132/#tab-2|title=Nobuyoshi Araki: Untitled (1997)|website=Phaidon}} Many of his photographs are erotic, straddling a line between art and pornography.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/may/08/nobuyoshi-araki-photography-art-porn|title=Is Nobuyoshi Araki's photography art or porn?|first=Alex|last=Moshakis|date=8 May 2013|website=The Guardian}} Among his photography books are Sentimental Journey (1971), and Tokyo Lucky Hole (1990). Sentimental Journey "1972–1992" is a diary of life with his wife Yōko, who died of ovarian cancer in 1990. The first part of Sentimental Journey shows the couple embarking on married life—their honeymoon and sexual relations.{{cite web|title=Interview with Nobuyoshi Araki|url=http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2012/07/25/interview-with-nobuyoshi-araki/|website=invisiblephotographer|date=25 July 2012 }} Pictures taken during Yoko's last days were published in Winter Journey.

Parr and Badger include four of Araki's books in the first volume of their photobook history:{{cite book | author1 = Martin Parr | author2 = Gerry Badger | author-link1 = Martin Parr | author-link2 = Gerry Badger | title = The Photobook: A History, Volume I | place = London | publisher = Phaidon | year = 2004 | page = 274,286 | isbn = 978-0-7148-4285-1}} {{nihongo3|Xeroxed Photo Album||Zerokkusu Shashincho 24}}, {{nihongo3|Sentimental Journey||Senchimentaru na Tabi}}, Tokyo Lucky Hole, and {{nihongo3|The Banquet||Shokuji}}.

Araki contributed photography to the Sunrise anime series Brain Powerd.

In 1981, Araki directed {{nihongo|High School Girl Fake Diary|女高生偽日記|Jokōsei nise nikki}}, a roman porno film, for the studio Nikkatsu.{{cite book |last=Sharp |first=Jasper |title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema |page= 218 |year=2008 |publisher=FAB Press |location=Guildford |isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}} The film was a disappointment to Araki's fans and to fans of the pink film genre.{{cite book |last=Weisser |first=Thomas |author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films |page= 196 |year=1998 |publisher=Vital Books: Asian Cult Cinema Publications |location=Miami |isbn=1-889288-52-7}}

The Icelandic musician Björk is an admirer of Araki's work, and served as one of his models.{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/2095840/five-celebrities-shot-kinbaku-photographer-nobuyoshi|title=Five celebrities shot by the notorious photographer Araki|date=28 May 2017 }} At her request, he photographed the cover and inner sleeve pages of her 1997 remix albumTelegram. More recently, he has photographed pop singer Lady Gaga.

In 2004, an American director, Travis Klose, released a documentary about Araki called Arakimentari, which discusses the artist's lifestyle and work.

Araki was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008; he underwent successful surgery to remove the tumor.Kurt Easterwood, "[http://www.japanexposures.com/2009/10/07/arakis-latest-work-born-of-his-fight-with-cancer/ Araki's latest work born of his fight with cancer]", Japanexposures.com, 7 October 2009. Accessed October 24, 2010.

In 2010, Araki's cat, Chiro, died of old age.{{cite web|title=Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki × Chiro 'Japan's Most Famous Cat'|url=http://ilove.cat/en/2131}}

In October 2013, Araki lost vision in his right eye due to a retinal artery obstruction. The 74-year-old artist used the experience as an inspiration to exhibit Love on the left eye, held on 21 June 2014 at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.{{cite web|title=Nobuyoshi Araki: Love on the Left Eye|url=https://www.nowness.com/story/nobuyoshi-araki-love-on-the-left-eye}}

Commissioned by Italian luxury label Bottega Veneta, Araki photographed Saskia de Brauw and Sung Jin Park in Tokyo for the brand's spring/summer 2015 campaign.Alessandra Turra (December 30, 2014), [http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/talking-tokyo-8086675 Nobuyoshi Araki Lenses Bottega Veneta Campaign] Women's Wear Daily.

For the European Cultural Centre Araki made in 2018 the limited special edition photo series : “Monstrous Paradise”, representing Araki’s feelings about life in Tokyo.

Araki is known for his intimate access to models. When asked about this in 2011, he bragged that he gained access through sex.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nobuyoshi-araki-museum-of-sex_us_5a7c8c38e4b0c6726e10b29d|title= Will Nobuyoshi Araki Be Photography's Last Legendary Dirty Old Man? (NSFW)|first=Priscilla|last=Frank|date=February 21, 2018|work=The Huffington Post}}

In April 2018, Kaori, a model who posed for Araki from 2001 to 2016, wrote a blog post about her relationship with Araki{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/asia/nobuyoshi-araki-photographer-model.html|title=When an Erotic Photographer's Muse Becomes His Critic|work=The New York Times|first=Motoko|last=Rich|date=May 5, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2018}} in which she accused him of financial and artistic exploitation.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43721227|title=#MeToo Japan: What happened when women broke their silence|work=BBC News|first=Sakiko|last=Shiraishi|date=April 25, 2018|access-date=May 6, 2018}} Kaori stated that "she worked without a contract, was forced to take part in explicit shoots in front of strangers, was not regularly paid and that her nude images were often used without her consent." In 2017, when she requested that he stop republishing or exhibiting some photographs of her, Araki wrote to Kaori, warning that she had no rights. She states that the experience led to psychological trauma and ill health. Kaori stated that the Me Too movement had encouraged her to speak out. The accusations have raised questions about the power dynamics between a photographer and his subject. In order to raise awareness of Kaori's claims, the activist group Angry Asian Girls Association protested the opening of an exhibition of photographs by Araki at C/O Berlin December 2018.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/12/10/sure-knowledge-correct-asian-womens-group-protests-photographer-nobuyoshi-araki-berlin/|title='Are You Sure Your Knowledge Is Correct?': Asian Women's Group Protests Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki in Berlin|work=ARTnews|first=Claire|last=Selvin|date=December 10, 2018|access-date=February 22, 2019}}

• 1964: Taiyō Prize for photo reportage, Japan.
• 1964: Sun Prize, Japan.{{cite web|title=Araki's World - Solo Exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki|url=http://en.artron.net/news/news.php?newid=106529}}
• 1990: Shashin-no-kai Prize from the Photographic Society of Japan{{cite web |title=The Lucie Awards {{!}} Nobuyoshi Araki |url=https://www.lucies.org/honorees/nobuyoshi-araki/}}
• 1991: 7th Higashikawa Prize.{{cite book|title=Look Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jvtAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Look Japan}}
• 1994: Japan Inter-Design Forum Grand Prix.{{cite web|title=Nobuyoshi Araki|url=http://www.artuner.com/artists/nobuyoshi-araki/|website=Artuner|date=26 July 2013 }}
• 2008: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = de | page=1875 | access-date = 26 January 2013 }}
• 2012: Top Prize at the 6th ANGO Awards.{{cite web | url = https://art360.place/en/artists/nobuyoshi-araki/ | title = Nobuyoshi Araki | access-date = 21 July 2022 }}
• 2012: 54th Mainichi Art Award.{{cite web | url = https://ocula.com/artists/nobuyoshi-araki/ | title = Nobuyoshi Araki | access-date = 21 July 2022 }}
• 2017: Araki was shortlisted for the European Cultural Centre Art Award.

File:Some photobooks by Araki Nobuyoshi.jpg, 1993), 『京都白情 ラブ・ラビリンス』 (Kyōto hakujō: Rabu rabirinsu = Love Labyrinth, 1996), 『上海帰りのアラーキー』 (Shanhai kaeri no Arākī, 1998), 『東京暮情』 (Tōkyō bojō = Tokyo bojou, 1999), 『写真私情主義』 (Shashin shijōshugi, 2000), 『飛雲閣ものがたり』 (Hiunkaku monogatari = Hiunkaku Story, 2005), 『往生写集』(Ōjō shashū = Ōjō shashū: Photography for the Afterlife), 『楽園』(Rakuen, 2011),『荒木本！1970–2005』 (Arakibon! 1970–2005 = A Book of Araki Books! 1970–2005, 2006). The last, edited by Kōtarō Iizawa, has an obi that reads 「357冊！」, i.e. "357 books!".}}]]

• Zerokkusu Shashincho 1–25 = Xeroxed Photo Album 1–25. A series of books self-produced using a photocopier, published from 1970 onwards, each in an edition of 70 copies.
• Senchimentaru na Tabi. = Sentimental Journey.
• Senchimentaru na Tabi. Tokyo: self-published, 1971. Title and text in Japanese. 100 black and white photographs.
• Sentimental Journy. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2016. {{ISBN|978-4-309-27700-4}}. Facsimile edition. With an introduction in Japanese and English by Araki. Housed in a slipcase with a postcard.
• Tokyo Lucky Hole.
• Tokyo Lucky Hole 1983–1985 Shinjuku Kabuki-cho district. Tokyo: Ohta Shuppan, 1990. 272 pages.
• Tokyo Lucky Hole. Cologne: Taschen. With texts by Akira Suei and Akihito Yasumi translated into English, French and German. 704 pages. 1997, {{ISBN|9783822881897}}; 2005, {{ISBN|9783822846810}}; 2015, {{ISBN|9783836556385}}.
• Shokuji = The Banquet. Tokyo: Magazine House, 1993. 32 black and white and 28 colour photographs. With a text by Araki.
• Self, Life, Death. New York: Phaidon, 2005. Edited by Akiko Miki. {{ISBN|9780714845555}}.
• Photography for the Afterlife. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2014. {{ISBN|978-4582278118}}. With an essay by Mario Perniola, "Araki's Hell".
• Tokyo. Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne; Only Photography, 2017. 28 diptychs. With essays. Edition of 300 copies.
• {{cite book |title=Araki by Araki |year=2014 |location=Cologne |publisher=Taschen |language=en, fr, de |isbn=978-3836551120 |oclc=917170400 }} A 560-page retrospective survey of Araki's body of work selected by the artist.
• [https://europeanculturalcentre.eu/var/gallery/file/15614bfa0a7b1c7e5e8437df35fe8deb.pdf Monstrous Paradise]. Personal Structures Art Projects #11. European Cultural Centre, 2018''. {{ISBN| 978-90-829434-0-5}}.

• {{nihongo|High School Girl Fake Diary|女高生偽日記|Jokōsei nise nikki}} (1981)
• {{nihongo|Ai no Shinsekai|愛の新世界|Ai no Shinsekai}} (1994)
• Flower Rondo 3 (2002) – documentary short
• Flower Rondo 4: Kakyoku (2003) – documentary short
• Painting Flowers in the Sky Over the Balcony (2004) – documentary
• Fuyuharu (2004) – documentary short

• A Live DVD Araki Overseas 1997 – 2000 (2002) – documentary
• Arakimentari (2004) – documentary directed by Travis Klose and produced by Troopers Films (Regis Trigano and Dylan Verrechia).

• Tokyo Biyori (1997) – a biographical drama based on the life of Yoko Araki, the wife of Nobuyoshi Araki. Written by Nobuyoshi Araki and Ryo Iwamatsu, and directed by Naoto Takenaka. The Araki couple were portrayed by Naoto Takenaka and Miho Nakayama. Araki makes a cameo as a train conductor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123302/|title=Tokyo biyori (1997)|website=Internet Movie Database (IMDb)|access-date=11 November 2019}}

• 2005: Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City."[https://www.antonkerngallery.com/artists/araki Araki"]. Anton Kern Gallery. Accessed 3 March 2018.
• 2006: Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary), Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.
• 2008: Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.
• 2009: Araki, Anton Kern Gallery, New York City.
• 2010: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/exposed-voyeurism-surveillance-and-the-camera-since-1870/|title=Exposed Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art}}
• 2015: The Pistils Waltz, Gallery 51, Antwerp.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/galleries/51-fine-art-photography/the-pistils-waltz/|title=The Pistils Waltz on artnet|website=www.artnet.com}}
• 2018: The Incomplete Araki, Museum of Sex, New York City
• 2018: Nobuyoshi Araki: KATA-ME, Rat Hole Gallery{{cite web|url=https://www.ratholegallery.com/exhibitions/2018/03Araki/release-en.htm|title=Nobuyoshi Araki 2018 Exhibitions Rathole Gallery|website=www.ratholegallery.com}}
• 2018: Nobuyoshi Araki: Monstrous Paradise, RuArts Gallery, Moscow
• 2022: Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma, Hamiltons Gallery, London{{cite web|first=Federica |last=Barrios Carbonell|url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/2022/5/30/exhibition-review-nobuyoshi-araki-hanaguruma|title=Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma |date=31 May 2022 |access-date = 21 July 2022}}

Araki's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

• Israel Museum, Jerusalem{{IMJ-Collections|first= Nobuyoshi|last=Araki|accessdate=September 2016}}
• Tate, London{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2752&page=1|title=Nobuyoshi Araki born 1940 - Tate|last=Tate|publisher=Tate}}
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA[http://www.sfmoma.org/artists/102075/artwork sfmoma.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728002129/http://www.sfmoma.org/artists/102075/artwork |date=2010-07-28 }}
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago{{cite web|url=https://mcachicago.org/Collection/Items/1994/Nobuyoshi-Araki-Tokyo-Cube-102-1994|title=Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Cube #102, 1994|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago}}
• Art Institute of Chicago{{cite web|url=http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/206682?search_id=1&index=0|title=Untitled (C-58-17-1) - The Art Institute of Chicago|year=1973 |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago}}
• The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK"[https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/people/cp126712/nobuyoshi-araki Nobuyoshi Araki 1940]". Science Museum, London. Accessed 3 March 2018.
• The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam{{cite web|url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectie/maker/2292-nobuyoshi-araki|title=Nobuyoshi Araki|last=Grrr.nl|publisher=Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam}}
• Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt{{cite web|url=http://mmk-frankfurt.de/en/the-collection/artists-a-z/?page=15|title=Artists A-Z ::: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main|publisher=Museum für Moderne Kunst|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-date=2018-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302105535/http://mmk-frankfurt.de/en/the-collection/artists-a-z/?page=15|url-status=dead}}
• Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany{{cite web|url=https://www.sammlung-goetz.de/en/Exhibitions/past/2011/Street_Life_and_Home_Stories.htm|title=Street Life & Home Stories.Photographs from the Goetz Collection - Sammlung Goetz|publisher=Goetz Collection|access-date=2018-03-02|archive-date=2018-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302164359/https://www.sammlung-goetz.de/en/Exhibitions/past/2011/Street_Life_and_Home_Stories.htm|url-status=dead}}

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• [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/11/23/arts/intimate-photography-tokyo-nostalgia-and-sex/ "Nobuyoshi Araki: Intimate photography: Tokyo, nostalgia and sex"] by C. B. Liddell at The Japan Times (23 November 2006)

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