Nobuyoshi Araki
Born in 1940 in Tokyo (Japan), NOBUYOSHI ARAKI lives and works in Tokyo. A major figure in contemporary Japanese photography, Nobuyoshi Araki is known worldwide for his photographs of women bound according to the ancestral rules of Kinbaku, the Japanese art of bondage, a practice going back to the 15th century. He focuses on using only film, at a time when digital camera is booming. From flowers to ties, there is in Araki’s photographs some hints of misery and an almost baroque dazzling, which recalls Caravaggesque paintings. Kamel Mennour and...Read more
Works
Exhibitions & News
Group show, Empyrean
Past exhibition
27 March — 17 June 2023
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8
Nobuyoshi Araki, Neïl Beloufa, Camille Henrot, Pierre Molinier, Futures of Love
Past exhibition
21 June — 20 October 2019
Magasins généraux, Pantin
Group show, Mask
Past exhibition
28 June — 28 July 2018
Nobuyoshi Araki, Nobuyoshi Araki
Past exhibition
22 June 2016 — 23 July 2017
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Nobuyoshi Araki, Muses
Past exhibition
14 October — 26 November 2011