Nobuyoshi Araki valuation
Japanese photographer of Tokyo, flowers and the nude, with more than five hundred books to his name.
Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940) was born in Tokyo and studied film and photography at Chiba University, graduating in 1963.
What a work by Nobuyoshi Araki is worth
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Bio
Nobuyoshi Araki (born 1940) was born in Tokyo and studied film and photography at Chiba University, graduating in 1963. He then worked at the advertising agency Dentsu, where in 1968 he met the essayist Yōko Aoki, whom he married. Sentimental Journey (1971), a diary of their honeymoon and married life, set the pattern for a career in which his own life is the subject. His work moves between the streets of Tokyo, flowers, food, the sky and the erotic nude, including bondage, and it has drawn objections as well as museum exhibitions. He has published more than five hundred books, four of which Martin Parr and Gerry Badger included in the first volume of their history of the photobook.
Because he works on such a scale, much of what comes to market is one of many: Polaroids, sold singly or in grids, gelatin silver and colour prints, and his books, some of them signed or issued in small editions with an original print. A seller should establish the size, the date of printing, any edition number and whether the print is signed. Polaroids should be checked for fading, colour shift and damage to the emulsion. Some of his subject matter limits where a work can be offered and who will buy it.
At a glance
- Born
- 1940, Tokyo
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