Untitled
1971
Documentary Photography
Gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Whist on honeymoon with his wife and favourite muse in 1971 Araki bought a camera to photograph the trip. In this image, taken on the Yanagawa River, Yoko is sleeping on a rowboat. Along with the other photographs he took on the trip it became a series entitled £Sentimental Journey,” one of Araki’s best-known and most acclaimed works.

Nobuyoshi Araki
Street Photography, Fashion Photography, Documentary Photography, Modern Photography
Born: 25 May 1945, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese

Araki is a photographer and contemporary artist, primarily known for his photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context

Sachin
1963
Documentary Photography
Silver gelatin print
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, England

From Araki’s first series, “Sachin” portrays a boy on his back on the ground, doubled in laughter because his older brother is tickling him. Other photographs from the series show the boys playing around the run-down apartment blocks of the Shitamachi area. Conveying a sense of nostalgia for childhood the Sachin series won a Taiyo award for photographic reportage.

Nobuyoshi Araki
Street Photography, fashion Photography, Documentary Photography, Modern Photography
Born: 25 May 1945, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japanese

Araki is a photographer and contemporary artist, primarily known for his photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context