Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums , which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship especially in his native Japan , a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence.
To date, Araki has published over books of his work. Your Shopping Cart Your shopping cart is empty! Discover our bestsellers. Subtotal 0 Items 0. Adults Only. Save Hardcover, Bondage Read more. Kinbaku-bi , Anyone? Araki plays with patterns of subjugation and emancipation, death and desire and with the slippage between serene image and shock. Whether literally or figuratively, his models are certainly immobilized, but in the most tantalizing ways—girls lay bound but defiant, suspended from the ceiling, in traditional dress or nude, face-on, sometimes with a flower subtly positioned between their legs.
Araki picks his all-time favorite images of bondage. The result is a testament to his ability to tantalizing balance sexual vulnerability and seduction like no other. The artist Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in Bondage Hardcover, Customer reviews 1.
