Nobuyoshi Araki "Hana-Jinsei"

Kahitsukan・Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

Finished

Artists

Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki (1940-), a.k.a. Araki, continues to be the sole leader in the world of Japanese photography. Flowers are a consistent theme in his photography. The first flowers Araki photographed were the higanbana at Jokanji Temple in Yoshiwara, Tokyo, where he used to play as a boy.

Nobuyoshi Araki began his career as a commercial photographer for an advertising agency in 1963, during which time he held solo exhibitions and published a private collection of his photographs. He went on to produce a number of problematic works, and as his reputation as a photographer gradually grew, he began to take more and more photographs of flowers after the death of his beloved wife Yoko.

This exhibition will feature approximately 150 works on seven themes: "higanbana," "colored scenery," "kanskei," "hana-kyoku," "shikankei," "shikanjo," "shikanjo shikanjo," "shikanjo shikanjo," and "hana-ga."

Schedule

Apr 1 (Sat) 2023-Jul 23 (Sun) 2023