Publisher/平凡社

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Yoko is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. A pioneer of personal photography, Araki has documented raw emotions through intimate relationships and everyday scenes. This book brings together a collection of photographs taken over many years of his life of his wife, Yoko Araki, condensing their time together from their honeymoon to their illness and separation. Yoko's presence, as the subject, transcends mere modeling; it emerges as a symbol that questions the relationship between love and death, memory and photography itself. The photographs capture the irreversibility of time and traces of affection, leaving a quiet lingering impression on the viewer. This book crystallizes Araki's signature themes of "life and death" and "eros and thanatos" in their purest form, making it an essential work for understanding the core of his photographic expression. While it has been reprinted many times, this is the first edition and first printing.