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"Polarnography" by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (1940-). The title is a neologism coined by Araki, combining "POLAROID" and "PORNOGRAPHY," and the project is situated within the lineage of Polaroid works that he has been continuously publishing since the early 2000s. This work contains 100 previously unpublished works with women and the sky as the main motifs. Themes that Araki has pursued for many years, such as body and sky, interior and exterior, eros and time, life and death, intersect through the Polaroid medium, which possesses both immediacy and personality. The most distinctive feature is that instead of printing the works onto pages like in a typical photobook, each of the 100 works is a facsimile reproduction in a size close to the original Polaroid. The viewer takes the photographs out of a small box and arranges them as they like, creating a unique structure that allows them to engage with the works in their own way. Published by Skira in a limited edition of 1000 copies. The bold design, with a small box containing Polaroids placed in the center of a large red case, is outstanding, and among Araki's vast body of work, this is an object-like book that makes you conscious of the act of viewing photographs itself.
