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Nobuyoshi Araki
It Was Once a Paradise

Previously in the Gallery
1 June 2011 - 16 July 2011
Nobuyoshi-Araki-diptych-blackwhite-and-colour-photograph-It-Was-Once-A-Paradise-2011-80-x-50-cm

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For many decades now, Nobuyoshi Araki's central themes have been sex and death. In his photographs they have always co-existed, depended on each other: there can be no lust for life, without the threat of death.

In this as-yet-unseen collection of devastating new works by the world-famous Japanese photographer, now in his 71st year, it is not so much death he is concerned with, but grief. In each of these 40 diptychs, he addresses the complex relationship between loss and desire, which translates as despair and hope, separation and symbiosis, the internal and the other.

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About the artist

Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University's Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972.

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