Shukei

Nobuyoshi Araki
Shukei

Photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki

Publisher: Aat Room

32 pages

Year: 1995

Comments: Silver-white metallic softcover, saddle stitched. First edition, 1995. Black & white photographs. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Some folds on the cover but still in very good condition.

In 1973, just one year after his resignation from Denysu (large Japanese advertisement agency), Araki showed his unique body of work at the gallery of Kinokuniya Book Store in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Created from the artificially manipulated, damaged negatives, his work of nude, portraits or landscape appeared very abstract and distorted. Achieving a highly experimental effect, the work possibly surprised many viewers at the exhibition and successfully introduceed another side of his artistic expression.