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12/05/2009

ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life (1999)

ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental Photography, Sentimental Life (Photographie sentimentale, vie sentimentale). Tokyo : Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Asahi-shimbun-sha, 1999. — 50 €

Description — In-4° (30 x 23 x 1 cm), 152 p., 600 g.
Broché, couv. souple ill., photographies coul. et n&b. Bilingue anglais & japonais.
Pict. softcover, color and b&w pictures. Texts both in English & Japanese.

État / Condition — Bon (petits défauts aux coiffes ; sinon excellent).
Good (minor defects to spine-ends ; otherwise excellent).

Remarques & avis / Review — Voici le catalogue de la première exposition individuelle d'ARAKI dans un musée public au Japon, qui regroupa plus de 1000 photographies, au Musée d'Art contemporain de Tokyo (avril-juillet 1999) — un livre-catalogue en vérité très bien fait, bons choix de photographies, nombreuses, impression et textes, tous à la fois en anglais et japonais : un excellent et bel aperçu, osé, de l'œuvre d'ARAKI Nobuyoshi.

Here is the catalogue of ARAKI's first one-man exhibition in a Japanese public museum, which gathered more than 1.000 pictures, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (April-July 1999) — a catalog-book truly well-done, fine selection of pictures, numerous, fine printing and texts, all in both English and Japanese : an excellent, beautiful and daring insight of the work of Nobuyoshi ARAKI.

Divers / Misc. — À la table / Table of contents :

" Can Photography Make Someone Happy ?" — ISHIDA Tetsuro
"Contemporary Ararchy : When Photographs Become Contemporary Art" — SHINODA Junichi

Interview with ARAKI Nobuyoshi

"Along Came Araki" — SOTTOSASS Ettore
"Hikaru Genji of Today" — SETOUUCHI Jakucho
"Cheerfully Obscene" — MIYAKE Issey
"The Color of Tears" — UA

Biography