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Photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, who has published over 500 photobooks and is highly acclaimed both in Japan and abroad, has published "Iroin" (Sexual Innocents). This book, "Iroin," features works in which Araki himself has painted over black-and-white photographs of nude women. These prints and film-processed works have frequently been presented in exhibitions and photobooks (such as "Irojyokukyo," "Bokuju Kitan," and "Shi Genjitsu"), making them a familiar technique. In the book's afterword, art historian Shunji Ito, referencing Araki's work "Irojyoku Hana," touches on the "perspective of life and death" hidden in Araki's floral works, writing that "His unique technique, which grasps the female body with thick, fluid brushstrokes like a single stroke, gives direction and movement to the sexual impulses hidden within, and awakens the artist's own libido, seems more like a gesture of calling out to the shore of life through photography and painting than a gaze gazing upon the other side." The colorful lines covering the female nude sometimes accentuate the sensuality, elevating it into a vivid and impulsive work. Limited to 1,000 copies.
Signed and illustrated .
