Nobuyoshi Araki
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THE REVIEW

"I love women. I love them all: beautiful, ugly, thin, fat. Poetry insinuates itself within them. I photograph beauty, that’s why my photographs almost always portray women" [Nobuyoshi Araki]

Araki is the poet/prophet of eroticism, of feminine beauty. With each shot, he constructs a visual diary that examines the mechanisms of perversion, managing to outline them with poetry and beauty that is almost magical and austere without ever falling into skeptical pornography.
His work is defined by love, love that explodes through his photographs, controversial yes, but also extremely poignant, able to vary from the fascinating black and white, to the rusty sepia tone, to sudden bursts of color that blind the deepest emotions and mark the EYE with its convulsive picturesque essence.

Araki photographs the female body. Nude. As in this photo, he hides certain details and immortalizes others, alternating with incredible skill the role of light and shadow, always meticulously crafted in his photographs. The warm shadows stretching over the woman's nude seem to almost dance on the fair skin and blend with the black hair of the Japanese model, lying on a cold surface, waiting to meet the gaze of the lens or the photographer, metaphorically immersed in the flesh of the girl mesmerized by art. 

But Araki's photography is not flesh. Or at least not dead flesh. Araki's photography is life, and as such, it hides the most fascinating and disturbing contemporary perversions, which are not and MUST NOT instill negativity, but bloom like a vaginal flower in the purest perversion: LIFE.