Arakimentary- the movie

[vir-jin]

[Socratesabroad]

[American Oyaji]

Here is a gallery of a bunch of his photos.

NSFW

From what I heard, this is his mild stuff.

[Mulboyne]

An earler post of mine on FG Thread: How to Eat Sushi

Which reminds me. A friend of mine was out in Tokyo with the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and Bjork. At an izakaya, Bjork's supped down cups of soy sauce like it was sake. She apparently loved it.

[kotatsuneko]

didnt c4 air a docu on him "the sex shogun of shinjuku" around a decade ago?

[Charles]

From what I heard, this is his mild stuff.

Not really. I saw an Araki show in Chicago, and looked through a few of his books. There was nothing more prurient in his general works than in that online gallery, unless you think there's something inherently more deviant about the pictures where Araki is personally taking part in the action.

[Mulboyne]

didnt c4 air a docu on him "the sex shogun of shinjuku" around a decade ago?

The guy who told me the Bjork story made that documentary. There were two producers, one who thought Araki was a dirty old man and the other who thought he was a genius. The documentary had something of a split personality as a result. I saw him speak at the FCCJ a couple of years ago and he was very entertaining. I like his "Tokyo Monogatari" collection

[vir-jin]

There is a print exhibition at Geidais University museum right now. One of the hanga artists used obviously Arakis photograph above as pattern. All in bloody red and in four different styles. I find this even more remarkable since the Japanese painting on the wall in Arakis picture is also exhibited. But none of Arakis works are shown.
FG's, you are great researchers :P
Japanese, you are inspired photocopier

[American Oyaji]

From what I heard, this is his mild stuff.

Not really. I saw an Araki show in Chicago, and looked through a few of his books. There was nothing more prurient in his general works than in that online gallery, unless you think there's something inherently more deviant about the pictures where Araki is personally taking part in the action.

1. There was a picture with a woman bound with a vibrator jammed up her crotch.

That gallery was just a very small sampling of his whole career.

And Charles,
pull ya head in mate. Noone likes a know it all. And it seems you try to be an authority on nearly every subject.
Ijo.

[Charles]

1. There was a picture with a woman bound with a vibrator jammed up her crotch.

I recognized that picture, there's another version, showing Araki inserting the vibrator.

There's also another picture in that online gallery of someone getting a blowjob. My point is, is that any more salacious than pictures where Araki is getting a blowjob?

That gallery was just a very small sampling of his whole career.

And Charles,
pull ya head in mate. Noone likes a know it all. And it seems you try to be an authority on nearly every subject.
Ijo.

I have academic and professional qualifications in photography, it's been part of my career for over 35 years. Do you always go around telling off people who know things you don't know about? For you, that would be a full-time profession. Nobody likes a bitter, ignorant know-nothing.

Speaking of knowitalls, how the hell would YOU know what was in the exhibit I saw? There were hundreds of images, it was a major retrospective, and I looked at thousands of pages of his books. I have seen a representative sampling of his works, as selected by the artist. But you "heard this is his mild stuff" and your secondhand knowledge of his work obviously is more of an authority than someone like me who has seen his "hard stuff." Get over yourself.

[FG Lurker]

And Charles,
pull ya head in mate. Noone likes a know it all. And it seems you try to be an authority on nearly every subject.
Ijo.

Well said!

But this is Chuck... He seems to have a terminal case of assholeitis.

[American Oyaji]

blah blah blah

So fucking what. It doesn't matter a fetid dingo's kidney what kind of qualifications you have. It doesn't matter how much more you know.
It matters in how you come across. I'm not one to start flame wars, but I generally tell it like it is and I'm through.

You sir, are an asshole. You're a know-it-all (takes one to know one) and even though you wax eloquent on most subjects here it comes across as I quoted you above.

Pull ya head in.

There are members on here who know more than others, and have been in Japan so long I'm surprised their skin hasn't turned yellow and their hair straight and black, but THEY know a lot and they tell a lot about what they know, but they just,
1. present facts
2. leave the interpretation to someone else.

It's enough to know something, but its too much to assume someone agrees with you.

On second thought, DON'T pull ya head in. Pull it out of your ass and LISTEN to what people are saying to you about the way you come across you self righteous, pompous, egotistical dog fart.

Ok. Rant over. I'm through.

(I knew I shoulda left your dumb ass on ignore)

[Charles]

(I knew I shoulda left your dumb ass on ignore)

Please do. Your whining is quite tiresome.

Someday perhaps you will learn that the entire world does not revolve around you, and that knowledgable people who share their experience are not doing so merely to make you feel inferior.

[American Oyaji]

It's official.

You are so full of shit that you couldn't unstuff yourself if you wanted to.

moving along

[FG Lurker]

I really want to stick you on ignore too Chuck... But you're like watching a slow motion train wreck: I want to turn away, but somehow I can't.

Yes, you really are that fucked up.

If you weren't such a pompous prick you'd be hilarious.

[Charles]

moving along

Unlikely. You're obsessed. But I'm always glad, as an artist, to fulfill your heart's desire, a target for your demented hatred. Now you can join the other nutballs, googling everything I ever wrote, building up your mental image of who I am, picking apart every word I post, even dreaming about me at night. You really need a life.

Let's recap what happened here.
1. You post some Araki images, saying you heard they're mild compared to his other works.
2. I said they weren't that mild, and that I've seen a lot of Araki's work and the stuff you posted was as extreme as anything Araki has done.
3. You said I am an asshole.

People are going to get tired of your obsessive hate a lot quicker than they'll get tired of what I'm posting. But go ahead and destroy yourself battling with me, if it makes you happy. Others have tried, and they always destroy themselves.

[DUCK]

go ahead and destroy yourself battling with me, if it makes you happy. Others have tried, and they always destroy themselves. [MwaHaHaHa!]

[Ahem] Quack.

[American Oyaji]

blah blah blah

[Mulboyne]

Back on topic:

Telegraph: 'We all like a bit of dirt'
Even at 65, Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan's most famous photographer, moves twice as fast as normal people. He darts into the opening of his exhibition at the Barbican Gallery quicker than you can say "pornography"...There are moving selections from his most celebrated publication, Sentimental Journey: images he took of his wife, Yoko, on their honeymoon in 1971. There's one of the most beautiful pictures of Björk I've ever seen. And there are many, many photographs of naked women, usually with their legs splayed; frequently dangling, trussed up in rope, from ceilings. Are they art or porn, I ask him? "Each work definitely has a pornographic aspect," he says. "Otherwise it would just be eroticism, which is clean, intellectual - and uninteresting. I'm upgrading them with a bit of dirt. We all like dirt." They're porn, then...more...

[Mulboyne]

Guardian: Dirty pretty things
Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius - and the photographer quite agrees...'If I didn't have photography," Nobuyoshi Araki has said, "I'd have absolutely nothing. My life is all about photography, and so life is itself photography." Araki's art overflows with life, and his life is awash in images. They are good, bad, indifferent; posed, random, accidental; prurient, erotic, anarchistic, touching, vulgar, lascivious, lurid, sentimental. The cumulative effect is overwhelming...As with all good art, one keeps coming back to the singular, to particular images and moments. One moves from glistening images of food to a close-up of a kiss; from a snail crawling on the lips of a woman's vagina to wilting flowers, and then to a breast bound and squeezed with rope. The fact that some juxtapositions are alarming is part of the point. Here's a grid of portraits, from newly borns to 100-year-old matriarchs, all from one area of Tokyo and all photographed in a single day. For Araki, faces are the real private parts...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Quack.

go ahead and destroy yourself battling with me, if it makes you happy. Others have tried, and they always destroy themselves. [MwaHaHaHa!]

[Ahem] Quack.

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via: Post-war Karuta cards

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[Taro Toporific]

Quack.

"Odd ducks."

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by Grant Faint, Getty Images--Photographer's Choice