Love Hotel
de Nobuyoshi Araki, Karine Chesneau (Traduction)

Présentation de l'éditeur
Un rituel érotique mystérieux, un art qui oscille entre tendresse et cruauté : telles sont les caractéristiques de l'œuvre du photographe japonais Nobuyoshi Araki. Dans ce carnet de route qui couvre les années 1970-1990, Araki raconte ses rencontres avec ses modèles féminins. Comment des filles abordées dans les quartiers populaires de Tokyo deviennent-elles les créatures de son univers hors norme et parfois ses maîtresses d'une journée ? Comment les convainc-t-il de se prêter à ses sulfureuses mises en scène ? Dans ce jeu où l'humour et la poésie s'allient au sadomasochisme, la victime n'est pas toujours celle qu'on imagine... Chronique libertine d'un amoureux des femmes sous toutes les coutures, Love Hotel est aussi l'histoire d'un regard épris du Japon contemporain.

Biographie de l'auteur
Né en 1940 à Tokyo, Nobuyoshi Araki expose d'abord au Japon avant d'être invité aux Etats-Unis et dans toute l'Europe. Son esthétique photographique, nus féminins et scènes de bondage, est aujourd'hui mondialement connue.

Nobuyoshi Araki : Self, Life, Death , édition en langue anglaise
de Akiko Miki, Yoshiko Isshiki, Tomoko Sato

Book Description
Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his life's work.

Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
de Nobuyoshi Araki (Photographies)

Book Description
Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his life's work

Subway Love
de Nobuyoshi Araki (Photographies)

Book Description
From 1963 until 1972, the young Nobuyoshi Araki obsessively photographed his fellow passengers during his daily commute on the Tokyo subway. Yawning businessmen, women dozing with their legs splayed, kids who mugged for the camera-Araki captured them all candidly on film, without using a viewfinder. Now, over thirty years later, Subway Love brings back to life these vital and various "prisoners" crammed into their subway cars. Included is an interview with Araki, who explains the essence of documentary: "to gaze unflinchingly at a thing for a long time."

The brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan's leading photographers.

Araki mythology (en anglais)
de Jean-Christophe Ammann, Araki Nobuyoshi (Photographies)