Araki – 40th Anniversary Edition

Decades' worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself.

First published as a Limited Edition and now back in a new format to celebrate TASCHEN's 40th anniversary, the curation delves deep into Araki's best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colorful, sensual flowers; female genitalia; and the Japanese art of kinbaku, or bondage. As girls lay bound but defiant and glistening petals assume suggestive shapes, Araki plays constantly with patterns of subjugation and emancipation, death and desire and with the slippage between serene image and shock.

• Format Hardback | 512 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 217 x 43.18mm | 1,474g
• Publication date 18 Nov 2020
• Publisher Taschen GmbH
• Publication City/Country Cologne, Germany
• Language English, French, German
• ISBN10 383658252X
• ISBN13 9783836582520