by John Martin Tilley
Best known for his bold explorations of Japanese bondage and his intimate relationships with the subjects therein (as featured here at office), Nobuyushi Araki, as it turns out, has a softer side...
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One Sky Star World Team Alliance by Stefan Marx featured in Here Magazine
Thursday March 15, 2018
Flights of Imagination by Emma Glassman Hughes
"German Illustrator Stefan Marx's first memory of a plane is from a visit to the open observation deck at Frankfurt Airport with his family as a child.
It was Sunday, and he fell instantly in love...
Blue Period / Last Summer: Arakinema by Nobuyoshi Araki featured in Ravelin Magazine
Friday March 2, 2018
by Robert Dunn
Nobuyoshi Araki doesn’t need me to write about him. He probably doesn’t need anybody to write about him at this point, five hundred or so books in (or is it five thousand?), and a long, serpentine, impressive career behind him (with, one hopes, much more to come). I mean, what is there to say anyway? That he did breakthrough work back in the early ’70s, discovering along with Daido Moriyama just how exhilirating a bunch of blurry photos reproduced on a crappy Xerox machine could be. That in the ’80s he became a rapscallion celebrity photographer, especially in the...
Mao Ishikawa, Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa featured in Liberation as one of the best 10 books of the year
Thursday December 28, 2017
By Clementine Mercier
"En 1974, la photographe Mao Ishikawa, après avoir étudié auprès de Shomei Tomatsu, rentre à Okinawa, l’île où elle a grandi. Elle a 22 ans et travaille dans un bar du quartier noir de Koza pour photographier les GI. Rendue aux Japonais en 1972, Okinawa a été occupée par les troupes américaines après la guerre et les soldats y ont implanté bars et fast-food : dans l’armée comme dans les loisirs, la ségrégation sévit puisque certains établissements et quartiers sont réservés aux soldats noirs. Leur aura d’occupants n’empêche en rien les Japonaises d’Okinawa de tomber folles amoureuses des GI, ce...
Blue Period / Last Summer: Arakinema by Nobuyoshi Araki featured in Office Magazine
Sunday November 26, 2017
Prolific lensman Nobuyoshi Araki is a titan of Japanese photography. Araki’s immense oeuvre exploring corporeal subjects—bondage, his late wife Yoko, food, nudes—is readily recognized, yet few are familiar with his experimental film project Arakinema...
Blue Period / Last Summer: Arakinema by Nobuyoshi Araki featured in Dazed
Friday November 24, 2017
By Brittany Dawson
One of Japan’s most prolific and controversial photographers, Nobuyoshi Araki, is set to release his new book Blue Period/Last Summer: Arakinema in December, which will focus on his lesser-known work in experimental film projects...
Blue Period / Last Summer: Arakinema by Nobuyoshi Araki featured in I-D
Thursday November 23, 2017
By Paige Silveria
Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is famous for his striking black-and-white photos of naked women (often artfully tied up with rope). But his latest book, Blue Period, Last Summer, highlights his lesser-known performance work — featuring color-drenched photos of erotica as well as garbage-strewn Tokyo city streets and dreamy skylines...
