25 junio 2008

Nobuyoshi Araki

Polémico fotógrafo japonés que ha supuesto una ruptura en el arte fotográfico japonés del momento...
Japanese photographer polemic that has meant a break in the Japanese photographic art of the moment ...



'''Nobuyoshi Araki''' (en japonés 荒木経惟, 25 de mayo, 1940) es un fotógrafo japonés, artista contemporáneo también clasificado de pornógrafo, proveniente de Tokio. Ha sido asiduamente acusado por grupos feministas de misógino debido al contenido de muchas de sus fotografías.
Araki estudió fotografía en el colegio (diplomado de la universidad de Chiba en 1963 recibe ese mismo año el premio Taiyo) y más tarde se fue a trabajar a una agencia publicitaria en Dentsu, donde contrae matrimonio con Yoko en 1971. Después de la boda, publica un libro de fotografías de su mujer tomadas durante la luna de miel que titula ''Sentimental Journey''. Yoko muere en 1990 a causa de un cáncer de ovario. Las fotos tomadas durante sus últimos días están recogidas en el libro ''Winter Journey''.
Sus trabajos siempre le han aportado una gran notoriedad entre el público japonés e internacional, sus fotografías, siempre acompañadas de textos en forma de diario íntimo, fueron precursores e innovadoras con las tendencias artísticas del momento. Más tarde, bien conocido por las fotografías que documentaban la industria sexual japonesa y enfocando el barrio de Kabukicho de Shinjuku en Tokio en 1980, Araki publica ''Tokyo Lucky Hole''.
En 2005 Travis Klose realizó un documental sobre su arte titulado Arakimentari.

"If your only interested in creating a likeness, you might think that all you have to do is take a photograph, but photographs really aren't likenesses at all. They both do and don't resemble their subjects. You might think that photographs depict things as they really are, but a camera doesn't create a real likeness."
Nobuyoshi Araki studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki (荒木陽子 Araki Yōko). After they were married, Araki published a book of pictures of his wife taken during their honeymoon titled Sentimental Journey. She later died in 1990. Pictures taken during her last days were published in a book titled Winter Journey.
Having published over 350 books (and still more every year) Araki is considered one of the most prolific artists alive or dead in Japan and around the world. Many of his photographs are erotic; some have been called pornographic. Some of his most popular photography books are Sentimental Journey, Tokyo Lucky Hole, and Shino. He also contributed photography to the Sunrise anime series Brain Powerd.The Icelandic musician Björk is an admirer of Araki's work, and served as one of his models. At her request he photographed the cover and inner sleeve pages of her 1997 remix album, Telegram.
Araki's life and work were the subject of Travis Klose's 2005 documentary film Arakimentari.

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