One of my all-time favorite photobooks: posted by akinabooks: Nobuyoshi Araki sentimental journ
One of my all-time favorite photobooks: posted by akinabooks: Nobuyoshi Araki sentimental journey - Winter JourneyHardcover with Slip case 20cm x 27cm124 pages.Publisher: Shinchosha, 1991 The book is composed by two parts: Sentimental journey and Winter Journey.“Sentimental journey” was self-published in 1971, following his earlier series of “Zerokkusu Shashin-cho” (Xeroxed photo albums) distributed among collegues and friends.Sentimental journey is the first of three self-published volumes, followed by : Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 2 (Sentimental Journey continued) and Tokyo: Araki Nobuyoshi Photobook 3.In 1991, following Yoko’s death, Araki took Sentimental Journey and put it next to Winter Journey, a photo diary of the last month of Yoko before passing away.The date on the photographs become like sand of an hourglass.In Winter Journey’s last page, after Yoko’s death, we see Chiro, Araki’s cat, waking him up to play in the snow on his terrace. “I can’t take it anymore. I don’t have chronic diarrhea belly middle-ear inflammation, sometimes I am flooded by fashion photographs but it’s nothing more than that.,this kind of face, this nudity, this private life, thiis landscape, are total lies; I can’t take it.This book is different from those false photographs. This sentimental Journey is my love and my determination as a photographer.As a photographer I have made love my starting point, and by chance I began with the shi-shosetsu (“I-novel), there’s nothing more than that.I simply sequenced the photographs following the course of our honeymoon trip, but anyway please turn through the pages. It is offset printed with a faded ash color. It is all the more a sentimental journey.As the progression of my daily life goes on and disappears, something is felt in the process. “ Extract from the insert of Sentimental Journey, 1971 Links:interview with Araki on Trans Asia photography reviewSentimental journey was the focus of the Photobook club’s discussion in december 2011, here you can find quite a few interesting articlesGreat article on Chiro (Araki’s cat) on www.ilove.catYoutube extract from “Arakimentary” PS: many thanks to Takayuki Kobayashi (Flotsam books) for finding me this copy! -- source link
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