Nobuyoshi Araki 16593 — Blue Period / Last Summer

Session Press, DaSHWOOD bOOKS, 2017, Paperback, 216, The artist staged a series of live performances entitled Arakinema until the mid-2000s in museums and art institutions around the world. Blue Period and Last Summer are made up primarily of nudes and portraits alternating with street scenes and images of flowers. The majority of the work is derived from Shashin Jidai, the important underground sub culture magazine of the 1980s in Japan. These two projects are considered to be essential among the artist's film work. Araki also explained: \"the two films should be seen as a set, since Blue Period is about the past and Last Summer is about the future. By removing color using a chemical solution, Blue Period is about an act of subtraction (past), whereas adding color to the images in Last Summer is about an act of addition (future). This project is just like life itself\"--Information from Dashwood Books website. Edition of 1750 copies, paperback in slipcase., Als nieuw