This work is limited to a worldwide print run of 2500 copies, each book numbered and signed by the artist. It presents a retrospective collection of around 1000 photographs which tell the artist's story. Araki is best known for his intimate snapshot-style images of women, often tied up with ropes.
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This work is limited to a worldwide print run of 2500 copies, each book numbered and signed by the artist. It presents a retrospective collection of around 1000 photographs which tell the artist's story. Araki is best known for his intimate snapshot-style images of women, often tied up with ropes.
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New in new dust jacket. (ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi & Jerome Sans. ARAKI-LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/2500 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 636pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. With a biography and bibliography. "Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender". Limited to two-thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the first of Taschen's XXXL series) pares down decades of Nobuyoshi Araki's oeuvre into a thousand or so images that tell the story of the renowned Japanese photographer and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. A brand new, pristine example NUMBERED AND BOLDLY SIGNED by Araki in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value-we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 027401.