Publisher/Le Lezard Noir

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"Akai Hana Haruki Yukimura Sessions" is a photobook by Japanese photographer Yasuji Watanabe. Watanabe is a photographer who has been active since the 2000s and is known for his works focusing on female figures and bodily expression, which have been featured in overseas photography anthologies and exhibitions. This book is a collection of works published in 2008 by the French publisher Le Lézard Noir, and it brings together photographs that deal with Japanese bodily culture and eroticism. The subjects are the bodily expressions using rope by bondage artist Haruki Yukimura, and the book contains works that capture the unique forms and tension created by the female body and rope. Quietly capturing the tension and beauty created by the structure of the subject's body and rope, this collection of works, which has been introduced overseas as a form of bodily expression that overlaps with the lineage of Nobuyoshi Araki and others, has a background in Japan's unique fetishism culture. It is also an interesting example of the process by which Japanese erotic photography is accepted abroad.