
42 Polaroids
Comprising forty-two Polaroid photographs, this intimate body of work showcases Nobuyoshi Araki's characteristically raw and confessional approach to image-making, blurring the boundaries between public documentation and deeply personal narrative. The Polaroid format lends each image an immediacy and tactile authenticity, reinforcing Araki's signature aesthetic of spontaneity and unfiltered truth. The personal nature of each photograph is further underscored by Araki's own ink signatures, with two inscribed on the recto and forty on the verso.
- Medium
- Two signed in ink on the recto; forty signed in ink on the verso.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
November 7, 2013
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