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荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki — 101 works for Robert Frank (Private Diary)
荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki

101 works for Robert Frank (Private Diary)

A monumental archive of 101 gelatin silver prints, this work by Nobuyoshi Araki unfolds as an intimate visual diary dedicated to the legendary photographer Robert Frank. With his characteristically raw and confessional approach, Araki layers snapshots of urban Tokyo life, tender domesticity, and fleeting moments of desire and mortality into a densely personal narrative. The accumulation of individually framed images transforms the work into a sprawling meditation on photography itself as an act of memory, devotion, and obsessive seeing.

Medium
101 gelatin silver prints, each framed.

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October 1, 2013

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荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki, 101 works for Robert Frank (Private Diary)

A monumental archive of 101 gelatin silver prints, this work by Nobuyoshi Araki unfolds as an intimate visual diary dedicated to the legendary photographer Robert Frank. With his characteristically raw and confessional approach, Araki layers snapshots of urban Tokyo life, tender domesticity, and fleeting moments of desire and mortality into a densely personal narrative. The accumulation of individually framed images transforms the work into a sprawling meditation on photography itself as an act of memory, devotion, and obsessive seeing.

Medium
101 gelatin silver prints, each framed.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Melancholic Mood, 20th Century, Intimate Subject Matter, Urban Life, Male Artist, Documentary Style, Autobiographical Work, Japanese Artist, Photo Series, Black and White Photography, Gelatin Silver Print, Contemporary Photography, Private Diary Series, Tokyo Life, 21st Century, Confessional Photography, Legendary Photographer, Sequential Format, Intimate Diary

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