{"title":"Nobuyoshi Araki","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobuyoshi Araki (born 1940, Tokyo) is one of the most prolific and widely exhibited photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Working almost exclusively in Tokyo, Araki developed a practice rooted in personal narrative, erotic photography, still life and urban observation, producing thousands of books, editions and exhibition catalogues across a career spanning more than five decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis first major work, \u003cem\u003eSentimental Journey\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), documented his honeymoon with his wife Yoko in a sequence of intimate photographs that established the diary-like, confessional mode that would define much of his subsequent output. Later series — including \u003cem\u003eTokyo Lucky Hole\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAkt-Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlower\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSentimental Journey \/ Winter Journey\u003c\/em\u003e — extended this approach across eroticism, mortality, the female body and the textures of Tokyo street life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1990s, Araki’s work was circulating widely through European museums and publishers. Major exhibitions at institutions including the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Barbican Centre brought his image world into contact with international audiences, generating a substantial body of exhibition catalogues, postcards and printed matter that document this period of expanded institutional reception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted matter, postcards and exhibition ephemera produced in connection with Araki’s practice offer a compressed record of one of photography’s most sustained and contested bodies of work.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nobuyoshi-araki-untitled-tokyo-novelle-kunstmuseum-wolfsburg-1995","title":"NOBUYOSHI ARAKI — Untitled, Tokyo Novelle. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 1995. Card 1 of 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal exhibition postcard issued for Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyo Novelle, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 25 November 1995–18 February 1996. Published by Gebr. König Postkartenverlag, Cologne. Card 1 from a series of five. Monochrome offset print on postcard stock, 10.5 × 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Unposted, with light handling wear and a small lower-corner crease.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAraki had treated photography as a form of personal narrative since \u003cem\u003eSentimental Journey\u003c\/em\u003e in 1971, moving between Tokyo, intimacy, eroticism and mortality through an exceptionally prolific sequence of photographs and books. By 1995, this private-looking image world was circulating widely through European museums and publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, a photograph is reduced to postal scale and assigned a number within a five-card sequence. The exhibition becomes portable: artist, image, institution and dates compressed into a unit made for distribution. The photographic image sits within a Polaroid-like white border; exhibition dates and the museum’s whale emblem occupy the stamp box, while the publisher’s credit divides the reverse vertically.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely card-backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gebr. König Postkartenverlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54008663245138,"sku":"ARAKI-WOLFSBURG-PC-1995","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Araki_Nobuyoshi._Artist_postcard._1995.jpg?v=1784136392"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/nobuyoshi-araki.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}