I don't know what you think of Nobuyoshi Araki, but can you hear me out?

I call him a "nihilist" who lives in a huge tomb in the foggy city.

Nobuyoshi Araki, Baidu, introduced as follows: photographer, contemporary artist, 1964 won the honor of Japanese photography-the first "Sun Award"; 197 1 published the famous book "sentimental travel" with the theme of wedding travel at its own expense, and published a large number of works and more than 200 special photo collections. The famous director Naoto Takenaka's film Tokyo Rihe is based on the story of Nobuyoshi Araki and his wife Yoko.

Seeing this, you will ask, why should I call him a "nihilist"

Since his debut, Nobuyoshi Araki has published more than 350 works, so he is regarded as one of the most prolific artists in Japan and even in the world. 1992 was accused of showing obscene photos in the exhibition "Crazy Picture Diary" and was fined 300,000 yen. 1993110 in October, the national police again accused him of selling as a "bad publication" in the park gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo, so all the remaining books were confiscated.

I actually know what "obscenity" and "unsightly" mean in everyone's eyes. But I just want to ask, "Do you really know Nobuyoshi Araki's works or what kind of person he is?"

As an author, I dare not clap my chest and hold these pictures and say to everyone in the street, "What do you know? This is called art! " "Or say to everyone," You don't understand art! "I never dared to get my hands on the word' art', and I will never understand it. I just think that creators should not only devote their time and energy to a work, but more importantly, they should endure all kinds of controversial voices.

We always experience the words black and white, death, despair and depression in his works. He once participated in a talk show, and the host asked, "Let me start with a simple question. You take color and black and white photos at the same time. Why? " He replied: "black and white represents death, and color represents life." I keep choosing between the two every time, feeling the vitality of life, which is why I don't shoot anything now. "

I dare not say that everything you see in Araki's works reveals nobility. But every photo is very real, which is incomparable to many such photos, such as "taking pictures" and "small freshness". His truth comes from his consciousness, which may come from the death of his beloved wife. He has reason to degenerate and indulge himself. Every day, all he has left in his heart is vanity. Every time he takes a photo, he falls into helplessness. In order to fill this gap, he had to do it again and again.

To put it mildly, "sex is empty", like many people call Araki "pervert" or other dirtier words. In contrast, I call him "incompetent performance art", a nihilist in contemporary photography. "My photo contains three time and space at the same time, past, present and future. I prefer to show these three time and space with one photo at the same time ... Time is impermanent, and it is really strange to say that each other will disappear, but when photography and time overlap, it will create a' now', which is the most lethal functional part. You can feel life and death at that moment, just like life and death in the process of photography. When you finish, one moment you did die, but the next moment you will continue to do nothing and have no thoughts, or do you want to wake up from the process of death?

Once a friend came across a book about Araki, a portrait of Nobuyoshi Araki's genius. There is a sentence in it, although I don't remember it clearly, but it is probably like this: you see, the close-up and the distant view are actually quite sad, and the close-up of the family is warm. Moved; If you add black and white visually, everyone you see will cry. This illusion can make things that seem happy become very sad. Even if you play the wedding March, it won't help, it will only get more and more sad. Actually, I don't understand this sentence either. Speaking to everyone is like teaching fish to swim. If the distance from near to far means a happy distance, then in Schindler's List, which is almost based on black and white, one of the shots deliberately compares the whole picture with a little girl in red, and then pulls out the foreground.

It's a red dot, and you can't walk in or get close to it. You just watched from a distance and couldn't hear her crying. But when did this distance become aesthetically sad?

"I feel something in my daily easy walking." This sentence was written in Araki 197 1' s first "private photo". I saw a comment saying: Araki is defined as a "private photo", which has neither the experimental nature of conceptual photography nor the sociality of documentary photography. But over time, a cup of high-concentration private coffee swells, and the spices such as body, life and death make it look mixed. Araki is neither a photography philosopher nor a well-informed photographer. He recorded from a true perspective, without any impurities and hypocrisy. Perhaps when editing the album, he only had any deliberate thoughts.

Araki had a cat, but he died after 20 years with Araki. So we can see it in many of his albums. I sometimes wonder if Araki would put his camera where his wife used to sit after finishing her sideburns if the cat was young. He would sit in an old cane chair and watch his cat Loki spread around, and sometimes he would jump on the roof. When he is tired, he will lie on the tatami, and he will not run around, but he will wake up on tiptoe and sneak around honestly.

Everyone is lonely, and there are not a few people with weird personalities like Araki. It is true that when you are alone, you will think wildly, but at that time, your thinking is also the most vivid. I also believe that artists and most people who try to play art on this road have a deep understanding that loneliness is addictive.

This article not only wrote about Nobuyoshi Araki, but also voiced for many people: You may not like me, but please don't hurt me. It is not that you don't understand me, but that I don't want you to understand me.

What you see is only a small part of everyone's truth. Everyone has two sides. In other words, if I can see my back, I think I must be very sad, because I left all my happiness in front.