Publisher/平凡社

Google翻訳
A photobook of Japanese representative photographer Keigo Araki, "Ogyou-san / Photography for the Afterlife". This book is a collection of photographs published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Shiseido Gallery et al. In 2014. Its title is a coin of Araki inspired by the Buddhist book "Ososhu Shihoshu" (985), written by a monk in the Heian period, but "Ososho Shihoshu" is a book that teaches the paradise for death after death. It is said that it is said to have become the foundation of the Pure Land thought because it was made. The background to this awareness of death is Araki's own onset of prostate cancer in 2009, the death of his cat, Ciro, and the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Life and death have always been keywords in talking about Araki's photographs, but in this book we will directly look at the appearance of the new wife and the figure of the proton from the figure of the new wife seen in "Sentimental Journey" to the death of Tiro, etc. From the depiction of death to "Satchin" in the 60's and photos of Araki and Dentsu, photos of Araki are recorded over time. The retrospective of Araki can be read like a running light, but this is a book with the theme of "death" and "reproduction."