Review "This meaty block of a book, much like Araki himself, is a legend." About the Author The artist: Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous "Xeroxed Photo Albums," which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 350 books of his work.
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Five Stars
GREAT BOOK
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Five Stars
recommended
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For voyeurs not photographers.
To fill a gap in my library I bought two books by Araki. This book was not pleasing as a photographic book; too lengthy, repetitive, and tedious. It wasn't the explicit images that made me reject this book but the poor, self indulgent photographs.I have absolutely no idea what it was trying to convey but, whatever it was, it was dated.Don't bother if you are a photographer
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