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Nobuyoshi Araki “Tokyo Blues 1977”

Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
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Artists

Nobuyoshi Araki
“Tokyo Blues 1977” is Araki’s 21st solo exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery. It features 26 vintage prints selected from “Tokyo Blues,” his solo exhibition held at Nikon Salon in 1977.

Continuing to produce very personal photographic works resulting from his close involvement with his subjects, Araki has published books dealing with the latently fictitious nature of photographs since the 1970s. In “Nobuyoshi Araki’s Pseudo – Reportage” (1980), he added documentary-like yet partly false texts to his photographic images. In “Nobuyoshi Araki’s Pseudo – Diary” (1980), he used the camera’s dating function to print false dates on his images.

“Tokyo Blues” is a fictitious documentary of a woman met by Araki who moves from her hometown in Kyushu to Tokyo. Araki felt the women he encountered and their pasts were “blues-like.” He became attached to their “performances” and decided to, in his own way, “reproduce” them. In his 1978 book “Dramatic Shooting: Actresses,” he writes “Behind the dictionary’s back, I once called women with presences that were more than real ‘actresses.’ In fact, all women are more than real. Each and every one of them is ‘the actual thing.’ Therefore, all women are actresses.”

Schedule

Aug 24 (Sat) 2013-Sep 21 (Sat) 2013 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-19:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays

Opening Reception Aug 24 (Sat) 2013 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
Websitehttp://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/10954/
VenueTaka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
http://www.takaishiigallery.com/
Location2F Axis Bldg., 5-17-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Access8 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line.
Phone03-6447-1035
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