Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940)
Untitled (#117), 2007
From the series »67 Shooting Back«
»Araki 67 years old, a counterattack of 6 x 7 cameras and film photographs against digital photography. A counterattack of a girl with muscular dystrophy, against ordinary girls. A counterattack of an ugly girl against a beautiful girl like an announcer. As for “Beauty” spoken, this is like a fixed illusion that someone has developed. After all, I want to take photographs of “real women,” lives full of faults and with a dirty side. That’s why I have been taking such women for a long time.« (Nobuyoshi Araki)
Chromogenic print, print date: 2008
Image dimensions 125,7 x 100,3 cm (125,7 x 100,3 inch)
Mounting, Framing Mounted in black metal frame c. 128 x 103 cm
Condition
Dye coupler; very few faint hairline scratches (only visible under raking light), overall excellent condition
Annotations
Signed by the artist in ink on the reverse
Literature
Araki, Nobuyoshi, 6*7 Hangeki, Tokyo: Artone 2007.
Prints / Japanese Photography /
