“Nearly all of the enormous number of new works that Araki took for this exhibition were printed on photographic paper. This is in keeping with the artist’s strong wishes as someone who has asserted that “photographic paper is magic paper.” The fact that he has chosen this method, which requires a kind of artisanal printing technique, gives us some insight into the artist’s discerning view of the underlying power of the photographic medium and his critical attitude toward the way our senses have been dulled and eroded in today’s digital environment.”
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Excerpt from the curator’s opening greeting for 荒木経惟 写狂老人A ARAKI Nobuyoshi Photo-Crazy A.
(Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery July 8th - September 3rd, 2017)
“…and his critical attitude toward the way our senses have been dulled and eroded in today’s digital environment.”
This.