Publisher/河出書房新社

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Photograph collection for the Afterlife (Unopened) by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book is a collection of photographs published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Shiseido Gallery and others in 2014. The title is a coined word of Araki, which was inspired by the Buddhist book "Ojoyoshu" (985) written by the Heian period monk Genshin. It is said that it was the foundation of the Pure Land idea. The background to this awareness of death is that Araki himself developed prostate cancer in 2009, the death of his beloved cat Chiro, 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, the appearance of the new wife from the appearance of the new wife to death and the death of Chiro, which are seen in "Sentimental Journey", are directly related. From the depictions of death, photographs of Araki over time, such as "Satchin" in the 1960s and photographs of Araki and Dentsu era, are recorded. Araki's retrospective can be read like a magic lantern, but it is a book with the themes of "death" and "regeneration." With obi. New unopened.