Talk:Nobuyoshi Araki

Picture
I took this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/torek/4644997712/ at his 70th birthday. I released it as Creative Commons on my Flickr. It would be nice if it would be useful here in this article about him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.233.170.106 (talk) 14:04, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Untitled
I'll be doing some editing to this page over the next few days. if anyone has any input, hit me on my Talk page --Michaelcoyote 02:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

error
I believe that araki's wife died of a malignant tumor in the uterus. The cancer later spread. That would not constitute as ovarian cancer. You may want to check the details on this one. ...... posted at 22:05, 13 February 2006 by 24.161.100.171 In a swedish exhibition, a sign stated that his wife died from suicide.. I believe she hanged herself. This is important to get right though, so please, someone, find a source.--84.217.125.213 01:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

No, no, no! He took pictures of her stay in the hospital before she died, so there is no way she hung herself. Unfortunately, The Genius of Photography didn't specify how she died.--Normal Phobic (talk) 13:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

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Flowers well before 2008
The article tells us:


 * Akaki [sic!]'' was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008, and has since undergone surgery which successfully removed the tumor. / After he was diagnosed with cancer [...] he said he began to take photographs of flowers [. . .].

Araki published books of photographs of flowers as far back as 1996/97; see pp 280, 282, 283 of A Book of Araki Books. -- Hoary (talk) 13:54, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I didnt mean to say that he never photographed flowers before. In the interview he said that he began to take photographs of flowers, which shall be presented at his furneral instead of real flowers. Thats something different.87.162.72.40 (talk) 17:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I'm sorry that I misinterpreted what was written before, but I think that you will agree that it was potentially ambiguous. Now, where did you read what he said about his funeral? -- Hoary (talk) 01:28, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Watched a tv-feature named "tracks" about Araki on German/France TV-station "arte", earlier this year. [] (please don't be confused by the videos there, they are only additionally information for the viewers, they are not what they did broadcast). 87.162.121.110 (talk) 14:30, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I found something else here http://www.nipponlugano.ch/en/podcast/araki-highlights.xml have a look at "chapter 6", the last few seconds of the video. Probably not "good enough as reference", but for your information, and maybe somebody finds a "better source".87.162.64.47 (talk) 19:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Style and content
The general style of Araki's photographic work is more about impression than the perfection of the photograph itself. Araki is extremely sensitive to the passage of time. He is good at capturing the flow in the urban space, the posture of the human body, nudity, sexual intercourse, sex expression, flower, fruit, sex organs, the faces of pedestrians and naked housewives. He also specializes in comparing and contrasting his photos, such as putting the smiling faces and urban space together to produce their own significance. Said it by Araki himself, his style is inspired by Araki's beloved wife, Yoko Araki. He claimed that the theme of love, happiness, and life motivates his passion of photography. Work for reference can be found in his work Sentimental Journey, the photography collection of Araki and Yoko’s honeymoon trip. Yoko Araki died in the year 1990. Her death brought Araki’s work to a new level. In his work Winter Journey bring up the atmosphere of death and it becomes a milestone of his career.

Araki & Kinbaku art
Araki's work is arguable due to the different critiques among a variety of social group. One of the most famous works of Araki is known as Kinbaku, the art of binding. Female models in his work would be tied up by professional Kinbaku artist; female reproductive organs are constantly shown in the image but the rest of the body parts are covered by Kimono. Those who do not familiar with the Japanese culture of bindings often criticize his work as pornography but not the form of art. However, Veit Gorner claims that Araki's work has a complex implication connecting by the Japanese Tradition of Shibari and calligraphy, revealing the concept of life to death through sexual content. According to Araki's point of view, he claims that Kinbaku is different from pure bondage. "I only tie up a woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up", says by Araki. His work is highly related to sexual contents (Usually use female bodies in his photography), which eventually creates some argument and voices to criticize his work. In fact, some feminist groups accused him widely in different period of time and he has also been arrested for several times by the Japanese authority due to breaking the Japanese obscenity law, and the curator of a museum who put Araki’s work on display has been arrested at the same time.

New York
Lopifalko, a small point on this edit (otherwise good): if somebody hears that an exhibition took place in New York, would it be normal for them to think "Hmmm, wonder where? Rochester, White Plains?"? (As for me, I'd have thought that they'd have thought NYC unless the context had suggested otherwise.) -- Hoary (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Hoary, there was a policy recommendation to use New York City in place of New York. I have tried so can link to it but cannot, sorry. I have been blindly applying that rule everywhere but your recommendation here appears to be a more nuanced and sensible interpretation.-Lopifalko (talk) 10:33, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

sexual abuse allegations
I have removed the sexual abuse allegations because they were poorly sourced to blogs. Theroadislong (talk) 07:24, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Controversy section
I've tagged the controversy section for POV, as it has repeatedly had badly written non-neutral content added by a Japanese IP. Don't remove it until this is resolved.104.163.159.237 (talk) 23:27, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Since it is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given, I have removed the POV tag. 153.230.238.91 (talk) 23:29, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * nice that you actually replied after I have left you numerous messages. The first issue is that your edit adds speculative statements on the effect of his actions. My edit does not. Second, your writing in English is poor.104.163.159.237 (talk) 23:37, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you tell me which sentence you think is speculative? 153.230.238.91 (talk) 23:41, 6 May 2018 (UTC)