Nobuyoshi Araki, Yoko. The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki #3. Tokyo: Heibonsha Ltd, 1996. Tankobon Softcover. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. 22,5 x 13 cm. 200 pp. First edition. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket spine sunned and slightly chipped at the top. Book fine, clean, tight and crips.
Language: Japanese.
Araki's moving tribute to his late wife Yoko, who continued to inspire his work even after her death in 1991. Absolutely stunning in its differentiated approach to their life, mixing the banal and the sublime, the sentimental and the erotic. The book documents their relationship through pictures of Yoko, from their first encounter in 1968 until her premature death from ovarian cancer in 1990. Araki is quoted to say that Yoko made him become a photographer. A great book by the 1990s international master of the snapshot, installing the practice as a norm even before digital photography took hold.