Shiki In - signed with drawing and inscription by Araki
2005
£350.00
Shiki In by Nobuyoshi Araki. First edition (2005). First impression (one of 1000 copies). Medium format hardback in fine condition. Signed and dedicated 'Amanda Arakiss' with an additional drawing by Araki to blank end page. No markings. Pages clean, binding firm. Dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Shiki In
An art-book printed in a limited edition of 1.000 copies. Araki's trademark black and white portrait photographs of nude women, most bound by rope or spread-legged, here overpainted with brush strokes of colors. "I wanted to molest women who had become monochrome, it made me want to paint color on prints".
About Araki from Kamel Mennour
Born in 1940 in Tokyo (Japan), NOBUYOSHI ARAKI lives and works in Tokyo. A major figure in contemporary Japanese photography, Nobuyoshi Araki is known worldwide for his photographs of women bound according to the ancestral rules of Kinbaku, the Japanese art of bondage, a practice going back to the 15th century. He focuses on using only film, at a time when digital camera is booming. From flowers to ties, there is in Araki’s photographs some hints of misery and an almost baroque dazzling, which recalls Caravaggesque paintings. Kamel Mennour and Nobuyoshi Araki have been working together since 2003. Trained as a cameraman for 10 years, he has been using photography since the beginning of the 1970s. Since then, his work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions, both in Japan and abroad, in major institutions such as in the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Barbican Centre in London, the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium.
