Tracing the roots of Araki’s obsession with the erotic and explicit


Tracing the roots of Araki’s obsession with the erotic and explicit
Dubbed Japan’s most-controversial photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki has, for nearly half a century, pushed the boundaries of respectability to near-buckling point – and beyond.

A new retrospective exhibition co-curated by Maggie Mustard and Mark Snyder at New York’s  Museum of Sex celebrates the photographer’s body of work, a natural choice having spent a lifetime holding a mirror up to his nation’s complex relationship to sexuality and its…

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February 8, 2018 at 06:51PM
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