How to evaluate Nobuyoshi Araki?

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 struggle, and life is fleeting.

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 his job in Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising company, 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 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.