Nobuyoshi Araki

Bio

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940 and invented the genre of the false photographic journal in 1980. His work is inspired by the history of his country, his daily life, and Japanese eroticism. Situated somewhere on the border between autobiography and the diary, his work features spontaneous pictures of the sky, cats, Tokyo neighborhoods alongside still lifes and portraits of young women in a variety of staged situations.