Brief introduction of Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki, photographer and contemporary artist. 1940 was born in a civilian area of Tokyo. 65438-0959 entered the National Chiba University, majoring in photography and film. 1963, graduated from the Ministry of Engineering, majoring in photography, and joined the famous Dentsu advertising company in Japan as an advertising photographer.

Chinese name: Nobuyoshi Araki.

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Alias: Araki

Nationality: Japan

Ethnic group: Yamato ethnic group

Place of birth: Tokyo

Date of birth: 1940

Occupation: photographer

Graduate school: National Chiba University

Representative works: Sad Journey, Lucky Cave in Tokyo and Winter Journey.

life experience

1964 won the first "Sun Award", which was the honor of Japanese photography. 1999 became the chairman of the jury of the Sun Prize. Since he published his famous work "Sentimental Journey" with the theme of newlywed travel on 197 1, he has published a large number of works and more than 200 thematic photo collections, and his fame is growing, making him one of the most internationally influential photographers in Japan. The famous director Naoto Takenaka's film Tokyo Rihe is based on the story of Nobuyoshi Araki and his wife Yoko.

Araki's father is a manufacturer of clogs. His first photo was taken with a camera borrowed by his father when he was on a school trip to Nikko City in the sixth grade. This photo was taken in Nikko City. 1965 filmed the movie "Yamachi and His Brother" and attracted the attention of the judges of the Sun Prize. 197 1 married the beautiful Yoko of Dentsu (Yoko,1947-1990.1.27), 1972 left Dentsu. 1988 and two other people set up their own studio-a at room.

1992 was accused of showing obscene photos in the exhibition Crazy Photo Diary and was fined 300,000 yen. 1993165438+10. In October, the national police confiscated all the remaining books of the Parker Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo, on the grounds of selling the collection of dead wood works, which was deemed as an obscene publication. The works in this book are the works of his "Tokyo of Araki" photo exhibition held in Australia from 65438 to 0992. Australian publishers are puzzled that this book, which caused a sensation in new york and other places, was banned in Japan.

Nobuyoshi Araki studied photography in college. 1963 After graduating from Chiba University, he worked in the advertising agency of Dentsu, Japan, where he met his future wife, Yoko Araki, a Japanese essayist (real name Yoko Aoki, 1947- 1990). After they got married, Araki published the album Sad Journey, which he shot for his wife during his honeymoon trip. 1990, Yoko died, Araki met in the palace and published another book for his wife.

Since his debut, Nobuyoshi Araki has published more than 350 works, and the number is increasing every year, so he is considered as one of the most prolific artists in Japan and even in the world. Many of his works are about sex, and some of them are even called pornographic pictures. The most popular photographic publications in Nobuyoshi Araki are Sad Journey, TokyoLuckyHole and Lin Xiya.

Icelandic musician bjork (bj? rkGu？ Mundsdóttir) is an admirer of Nobuyoshi Araki's works and once modeled for him.

In 2005, American director TravisKlose filmed the documentary Arakimentari for Nobuyoshi Araki.

20 16 received a visit from photographer Zhong Weixing, conducted in-depth exchange and study, and participated in the' World Photographer' project initiated by Zhong Wei Xing;

Araki said: "Only when the subject has not discovered the other side of himself can such a work leave a deep impression on people, and such a photographer is a qualified portrait photographer."

Chronology of major events

1940 (Showa 15)- Shimonoseki, Tokyo (now Taitung, Tokyo).

1959 (Showa 34)- Graduated from Ueno High School in Tokyo.

1963 (Showa 38)- Graduated from the Engineering Department of Chiba University, majoring in photo printing.

197 1 year (46 years of Showa)-Yoko Aoki got married and started working.

1972 (Showa 47)- Leave Dentsu. Become a free man.

1974 (Showa 49)-Shomei Tomatsu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Daido Moriyama, Zhao Ze and Yokosuga, together with several "Workshop Photography Research Institutes", participated in the compilation.

1988 (Showa 63)—— named after the "learning ability test room" of Nohiko Anxi, Kazuhiro Ota.

1999 (heisei 1 1 year)-multi-prize.

2008 (20 years of Heisei)-won the Austrian Art and Science Award.

works

Tokyo biyori

For a time, Nobuyoshi Araki's photography became the passion of cutting-edge photographers. However, due to the practical problems of feasibility, his works are only a small part acceptable in reality. Guangzhou Art Museum also held his photo exhibition with the theme of city and people. Obviously, this is not the core creative part of Nobuyoshi Araki, although he also shoots well. This situation is exactly the same as the movie Tokyo Rihe.

When Tokyo Rihe was popular among the people, all kinds of young people never lamented Aika's "direct communication between life and death" last night. These are just movie posters of Naoto Takenaka and Miho Nakayama, and the grass is Melissa Zhou. Someone must be crying about it. The film puts the story of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his wife Yoko on the big screen-he spent the last time with her terminally ill, this elegy of love-if it is not colder than death, it is definitely stronger than death!

Let go of this unforgettable love and look through Nobuyoshi Araki's picture books. Most of them are erotic forbidden zones only suitable for audiences over 18 years old. Aestheticism is an additional word, and straightforwardness is the main theme. Therefore, when ecstasy, a documentary about Nobuyoshi Araki's biography, is put in front of us, we won't feel stupid. This is the real him, obsessed with eroticism, but loving husband and wife. Maybe the contrast is that Nobuyoshi Araki stands at midnight.

obscure

There is an interview with Japanese director Kitano Takeshi in Unknown. As a friend of Nobuyoshi Araki, the director who is good at black humor and violent aesthetics is also outspoken-Araki is more extreme and crazy than him. Indeed, Haruki Murakami's "After the Night" is just a misty fantasy, while Nobuyoshi Araki is standing naked in front of the night, opening the Japanese night and taking you into the night.

As he did, in the form of photos and erotic palaces, Nobuyoshi Araki fought against his country's legal system with one person's strength. Araki always plays the role of mosaic cleaner in the sex mosaic country which is more absurd than the extreme sex paradise. In this way, he sees things in the clouds, and his way of restoring organs is unreasonable, but his patience in breaking through the system is like water.

However, in his world, there is a sad and graceful love, and the bohemian king is a holy angel, which makes his story strange and surprising.

But the story of "Tokyo Rihe" and the scene of thinking of your wife in "Unknown" will make you unite them again, but why can love in the sunset naturally become sex in the flash? Perhaps, after reading Obscurity, you will think that Tokyo Rihe is too beautified, unlike cheating, but this is only a misunderstanding caused by partial enlargement.

"Ecstasy" came not too late, but just in time. We can learn more about Nobuyoshi Araki through pictures. Whether it is loyalty to love or lust for sex, Araki's artistic perception is still amazing-a set of photos he took for musician bjork vividly explained York himself and even her music. Nobuyoshi Araki knows how to make women's bodies speak, although many of his works are not tolerated by feminists.

"ecstasy" is not a masterpiece in the documentary, but its directness and the openness of the photographer ensure the authenticity of the documentary.

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Personality dispute

Until now, he is a controversial figure. The controversy not only comes from his choice of female body subjects and his obscene and pornographic shooting methods, but also comes from his photography concept. If we know more about Araki's tapestry photography, we will gradually feel that there is a far-reaching landscape behind the visual senses being filled with pan-images. Why is it so logical that such an absurd and uninhibited work falls on a Japanese and then gains international reputation? Maybe we should understand that Japan's worship of sex is quite frank. In their view, fanatical love and its sexual expression are not limited by moral concepts, and it is entirely because of beauty itself, because passion and fragrance are just the bright spots of meteors, and nothing but endless sadness and sighs are dragged behind. In fact, Araki's famous video series Yoko depressingly recorded his affair with his dead wife, but it has come true. Passion is a struggle and life is short.

In fact, through the sentimental surface, people will find that Nobuyoshi Araki is a pan-lover. Even if he is famous, he is not a gentleman at all, which is what we usually call "indecent" Araki was born in a family making wooden shoes in Tokyo's industrial and commercial residential area. After he published his debut album with the theme of wedding travel at his own expense, he resigned from Dentsu, the largest advertising company in Japan, the next year and began to indulge in wild life.

The "private photos" mentioned in the photo album "Sentimental Travel" became the declaration of his photography. Araki said in the preface like writing a letter to readers, "sentimental travel is my love and my determination as a photographer." I filmed my wedding trip, so this is real photography. " Then, he asked the readers to browse page by page. The last sentence in his successful photo collection autobiographical novels seems to indicate his initial motivation for photography. He said, "What do I feel in the passing order in my daily life?" He began his artistic journey from this collection of autobiographical photographs that no one would notice at that time. It can be said that Araki's later works all extend from this origin. In addition to taking pictures of his beloved wife Yoko, his camera is also aimed at places that no one will pay attention to, ordinary scenes in life.

Instead of looking at him as a "wretched photographer hiding behind the camera" as described in the movie Tokyo Rihe, we should look at him as an ordinary Japanese citizen. The affection between him and his wife Yoko, like any couple who love each other, is gradually accumulated through trivial contradictions in life and numerous misunderstandings and quarrels. This feeling seems dull, but every silent dinner and every silent walk contains endless love. Araki chose to record this feeling with a camera until the moment Yoko died-two clenched hands were left on the photo paper, and two hands were about to leave her lover. The camera is frozen, which is the farewell of people from two worlds. Every time I look at the life photos taken by Araki to Yoko, there is always a faint sadness after he loves his wife. This kind of sadness is not mourning, nor complaining. After all, it is a sigh of vanity fate. This is a typical Japanese emotion.

Nobuyoshi Araki is a photographer who has published many photo collections and is also a famous Japanese photographer. He is also a controversial photographer. The nudity in his works, the nudity of genitals, the nudity of sadomasochism and the nudity of young girls, brought him a lot of trouble. He even has a photographer group called Nobuyoshi Araki Tribe. People love and hate him, including his works. He is very talented and a happy and interesting photographer. His "Crazy Professor" hairstyle adds extraordinary personality to him.

Most of the time, Nobuyoshi Araki is an old-school figure, wearing a sleeveless vest with gaudy patterns, the kind that will flash, wearing sunglasses in the shape of "two cakes" on the mahjong board, with a high hairline, and cutting a small piece of hair into "two cat ears". It is already a landscape for such people to parade through the city with all kinds of cameras on their backs. With such a brilliant style and real reputation, it is not surprising that a young woman fainted when the camera flashed. There are many beautiful women in his female model, but not all of them are good. When they talk about Araki, they will use words like "tenderness" and "shyness". Perhaps to refute the statement that "body photographers usually have an affair with mannequins", a female model stood up and took the classic love story of Nobuyoshi Araki and his dead wife as an example, saying that Araki's favorite woman took his heart away for beauty. Even bjork expressed admiration for Araki's feelings. Bjork decided Araki had always loved his dead wife Yoko. Even if he doesn't talk, everyone can feel this great love. This story is Tokyo Rihe, making Araki a love legend. The story originated from 1972. He resigned from Dentsu Company, and the only thing he took away was the most beautiful Yoko recognized by the whole company. Araki has said on numerous occasions that his photography career began with Yoko. Someone asked him which human body work he admired most, and he said it was "everything recorded by Yoko". This is the charm of Nobuyoshi Araki. No woman but Yoko can make him like this.

win a prize

Nobuyoshi Araki has held numerous photo exhibitions, and their works have been collected by many domestic and foreign art galleries and museums. 1994 won the grand prize of Japan Interior Design Forum; 199 1 won the 7th Dongchuan Town Award; 1990 won the Sashin-Wild-Kay Award of Japan Photography Society; 1994 The work "Mountain Pond" won the first Sun Award.