Nobuyoshi Araki - Still Life - Original work (with COA)

Polaroid - Signed - 2016
Artist: Nobuyoshi Araki (1940-)
Title of artwork: Still life
Technique: Polaroid
Signature: Signed
Condition: Very fine
Image size: 8×7.6 cm
Total dimensions: 10.8×8.9 cm (4 3/10 × 3 1/2 in)

Signed on back in black by Nobuyoshi Araki. With COA by Norton gallery, Tokyo, stamped and dated.

Nobuyoshi Araki is a prolific photographer who has produced thousands of photographs over the course of his career. He became famous for “Un Voyage Sentimental” (1971), a series of photos depicting both banal and deeply intimate scenes of his wife during their honeymoon. A number of his works feature young women in sexualized situations: “Kinbaku”, a series from 1979, features 101 photographs of women in rope bondage. He typically works in black-and-white photography, and his hallmark style is deliberately casual. “Rather than shooting something that looks like a professional photograph, I want my work to feel intimate, like someone in the subject’s inner circle shot them,” he says.