Publisher/京都現代美術館・何必館

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"Hana-Jinsei" is a photograph collection by Nobuyoshi Araki, a Japanese photographer. This book is based on the theme of "flowers" that Araki has been taking for many years, and was published in conjunction with exhibitions held at the Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Araki began taking flowers in the early 1970s, and seemed to be the dying flowers provided at the grave of Jonji Temple in Minowa, where his parents were home, but after the death of his wife, Yoko, in 1990. In addition, he was immersed in shooting flowers, and released a series of "Kyokukei" as well as "Hanakyoku" and "Shijohana". It emits brilliant and vivid colors, and sometimes even decays are captured in close-ups, set in vases, and photographed in various ways. From the tranquility of still life to the sensual and obscene appearance of Araki and the coloring of petals with paint, the content can be said to be the culmination of Araki's flower photography that obscenes flowers. Also includes a new painting "Hanaga".