1. Nobuyoshi Araki, 「冬へ」 Tokyo: A City Headed Towards Death, Magazine House 1990
2,3. Nobuyoshi Araki, 「今年」This Year, WIDES 2005
4. West Shinjuku, May 2016
5. Google Streetview, February 2016
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Araki took the first image in the late 1980s- the second is his own re-photograph of the same staircase in the summer of 2005. The third image a picture of him taking the second picture.
Essentially this is rephotographing Araki rephotography.
The google car didn’t do such a bad job, either.