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荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki — c-print
荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki

c-print

2000

A raw and intimate photographic work by the legendary Japanese provocateur Nobuyoshi Araki, rendered in the vivid, saturated tones characteristic of chromogenic color printing. The image exists within Araki's expansive visual universe, where eroticism, mortality, and everyday Tokyo life collapse into a single unflinching gaze. True to his relentless autobiographical impulse, the work blurs the boundary between documentation and desire, voyeurism and vulnerability.

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荒木経惟 Nobuyoshi Araki, c-print, 2000

A raw and intimate photographic work by the legendary Japanese provocateur Nobuyoshi Araki, rendered in the vivid, saturated tones characteristic of chromogenic color printing. The image exists within Araki's expansive visual universe, where eroticism, mortality, and everyday Tokyo life collapse into a single unflinching gaze. True to his relentless autobiographical impulse, the work blurs the boundary between documentation and desire, voyeurism and vulnerability.

Year
2000
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Erotic Art, Male Artist, Japanese Artist, Contemporary Photography, C-Print, Bondage, Provocateur, Legendary Photographer, Black and White, Intimate Portraiture

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