Kamakura
Nikon F3 with 35mm f2 Nikkor-O lens
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KamakuraNikon F3 with 35mm f2 Nikkor-O lens
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KamakuraChinon CS with 55mm f1.8 Super-Takumar lens
Kamakura
Chinon CS with 55mm f1.8 Super-Takumar lens
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valerian: 1. Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo-Sei (Core Magazine, 1995)...
1. Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo-Sei (Core Magazine, 1995) original photo mid-1980s
2. Shinjuku station, April 2017
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Selected promotional postcards for photographic exhibitions in...
Selected promotional postcards for photographic exhibitions in Tokyo- late April ~ May, 2017
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ShimokitazawaLeica M2 with V4 35mm f2 Summicron lens, VC Meter...
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ZushiFilm Photographer BBQ 2017
Zushi
Film Photographer BBQ 2017
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ShinjukuLeica M3Contax G2Photographer: Mixa Michikawa /...
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valerian: Sixteen Nobuyoshi Araki Photobooks from 2016 Click the...
Sixteen Nobuyoshi Araki Photobooks from 2016
Click the titles below for brief reviews of sixteen Araki books & features published in twenty-sixteen.
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January
1. 写狂老人日記 命日 Photo-Mad Old Man Diary: Meinichi
February
2. 写真ノ説明 (光文社新書) Explaining Photography
March
4. センチメンタルな旅 Sentimental Journey
April
6. 去年の写真 Last Year’s Photographs
7. 淫冬 Imtou: Kimbaku Ecstasy & Flowers & Jamorinski
May
9. 写狂老人A 76齢 / Photo-Mad Old Man A 76th Birthday
June
10. アサヒカメラ 2016年 06 月号 / Asahi Camera Magazine June 2016
September
11. アラマメ Aramame
12. 淫秋 Imshu
November
December
15. SWITCH Vol.35 No.1 荒木経惟「東京物語」 / Nobuyoshi Araki LAST BY LEICA
some recent writing on Araki via my personal tumblr-
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NezuLeica iiif with 35mm f2.5 Summaron lens & external...
Nezu
Leica iiif with 35mm f2.5 Summaron lens & external finder
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NipporiRolleicordPhotographer: K. Hosokawa / instagram
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muju: Photographers, friends.Japan, place and date unknown.
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Osawa Camera, EbisuNikon F with 55mm f1.2 lensPhotographer:...
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ShinjukuPentax ME Super with SMC Pentax-M 20mm f4 lens
Shinjuku
Pentax ME Super with SMC Pentax-M 20mm f4 lens
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"“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to..."
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- Robert Adams, Why People Photograph (via andygrellmann)
“At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honour what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect — a sense of inclusion.
Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we are known.”
”- Robert Adams, Why People Photograph (via andygrellmann)
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Seen: “Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on...
Seen: “Photographoary: Photo-Mad Old Man A Turning 77 on 5.25.17”
Who: Nobuyoshi Araki
Where: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
When: May 25 - July 1, 2017 / 11:00 - 7pm / closed Sundays, Mondays, National Holidays
Araki’s Summer of 77 kicks off with his annual birthday exhibition at Taka Ishii gallery in Roppongi- visitors are treated to nearly 900 recent photographs- - some 720 monochrome 5x7 prints and another 116 large color photographs are hung in tight rows on the walls. His subject matter has shifted over the years- apparently his health keeps him on a different kind of schedule- pills and an early bedtime(1) makes for an entirely different nightlife than he enjoyed in the 1980′s. Yet his same piercing line of vision remains. Ties to time- something which all photographs are essentially based on, are evident in his pictures. His world of meals, aging friends, decaying rubber monsters, dying flowers, his erotic middle-aged housewives and even his battered Leica all denote the passage of time and aging. The contrast of the messy deep red of freshly pissed blood against the white porcelain of a toilet adds a dark exclamation point to the spectacle.
And still, he’s not done yet. I’ve always said that the best Araki is more Araki- - and this summer Tokyo will see several more major exhibitions of the photographer’s work- a show in June at Shinjuku’s epsite gallery, then “Tombeau Tokyo” exhibited in Japan for the first time in Ginza- - which will be followed by “Photo-Crazy A” , an exhibition with over 1000 new prints that will be up at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery. The grand finale will be an ode to his wife Yoko with “Sentimental Journey 1971-2017″, his first solo show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Summer of 77.
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Note: The B/W prints in this show were from Kodak Tri-X 400 through his Pentax MZ-S, while the color work was shot on Provia 100F through his champagne-gold Fuji GA645zi (Expect used prices to jump on this model.) The prints though– Fujifilm RP-Pro Crystal prints are jaw-droppingly beautiful. They have a luminescence and clarity that you have to see (only in person) to believe.
Sources:
(1) SWITCH magazine, September 2016 issue. Page 54
(2) Asahi Camera, June 2006 issue. Page 30
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Oji StationKFC Colonel Sanders Cam with Sunpak Auto 140...
Oji Station
KFC Colonel Sanders Cam with Sunpak Auto 140 flash
Photographer: unmourned-unremembered.tumblr.com
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Select promotional postcards for photography exhibitions in...
Select promotional postcards for photography exhibitions in Tokyo, May-June 2017
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Oji StationLeica M2 with Canon 25mm f2.5 lens and Voigtlander...
Oji Station
Leica M2 with Canon 25mm f2.5 lens and Voigtlander external 25mm finder
Photographer: unmourned-unremembered.tumblr.com
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EbisuKodak 35
Ebisu
Kodak 35
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valerian: 1. Nobuyoshi Araki, 過去 The Past, Byakuba-shobo, 1993...
1. Nobuyoshi Araki, 過去 The Past, Byakuba-shobo, 1993 (original photo circa 1973)
2. Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, April, 2017
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