Araki, a Japanese photographer of which I have spoken before in this blog, and which seems to generate interest, at the same controversy, this time makes you devote an entire entry.
Araki was born in Japan on May 25, 1940, more specifically in the city of Tokyo. He studied photography in college, where he completed a diploma in 1963. Later work in advertising, and in 1970 married, but his wife die from ovarian cancer and decided to devote himself to photography.
As for your images, never lacking in controversy, it has to say they are highly valued in the Eastern world, because they reflect something of a dark and forbidden part of the surrounding society formalism Nippon. This type of images is becoming more prolific in his work began in 1980 when the artist makes what would be the first of the series of this issue in the district of Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Anecdotally, it is noteworthy that on one occasion, in which the artist sent part of his work in Europe, were about to be destroyed images by the courier company since they considered them pornographic, and his contract was for writing that such messaging not accept the sending of pornography. After solving the misunderstanding, the images came to the show, but this endowed Araki, some controversy, which is otherwise the same which is dedicated to promoting.
Among the sickness, depravity and reflection, Araki is proposing some images where everything is dominated by an erotic component. Sexually charged, the more explicit, this author often criticized and labeled a misogynist, we attempted to show the duality of the company and puts us ahead of us in a way that society bother to conceal. It is this social fear of not wanting to see what's behind what I think Araki plans to launch in the face of a violent and elegant, but certainly brutal.
We can see his recent work in the 2005 documentary Arakimentari, by Travis Klose, showing the trajectory of this particular photographer, apart from their latest works.
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