Publisher/Nishimura Gallery

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"Flowers Life and Death (Signed)" is a collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers. This book is a collection of works published in 1996 at the exhibition held at Nishimura Gallery in Ginza. Speaking of Nishimura Gallery, it is famous as a gallery that spread British contemporary art such as Hockney, which was unfamiliar at the time, to Japan since the mid-1980s. Araki began photographing flowers in the early 1970s, when he took pictures of dying flowers in the graveyard of Jokanji Temple in Minowa, where his family lived. In 2004, he devoted himself to photographing flowers, and released series such as "Coloring Scenery", "Hanakyoku" and "Shikijo Hana". Fresh, vivid colors, and even decayed things are captured in various ways, such as close-up shots and shots set in vases. As the subtitle suggests, this book also contains many illustrations full of Araki's view of life and death and Eros, and is a small but impressive book. Signed by the photographer .