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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...

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...

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...

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...