Araki\u2019s Striking Photos of Traditional Japanese Bondage<\/p>\n
He\u2019s been called a genius and a poet, but also a misogynist, a pornographer, a monster\u2014but Nobuyoshi Araki\u2019s work transcends simple moralistic classifications. He has said of his work: \u201cThere is no conclusion. It\u2019s completely open. It doesn\u2019t go anywhere.\u201d One of the greatest Japanese photographers of our time, Araki\u2019s oeuvre is marked by an unmistakable mastery of composition, color, and tone.<\/p>\n
Meaning \u201cthe beauty of tight binding,\u201d Kinbaku-bi, the traditional Japanese art of erotic bondage has long fascinated the photographer, becoming one of his most important subjects. Araki plays with patterns of subjugation and emancipation, death and desire and with the slippage between serene image and shock. Whether literally or figuratively, his models are certainly immobilized, but in the most tantalizing ways\u2014girls lay bound but defiant, suspended from the ceiling, in traditional dress or nude, face-on, sometimes with a flower subtly positioned between their legs.<\/p>\n
Araki picks his all-time favorite images of bondage. The result is a testament to his ability to tantalizing balance sexual vulnerability and seduction like no other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Araki\u2019s Striking Photos of Traditional Japanese Bondage He\u2019s been called a genius and a poet, but also a misogynist, a pornographer, a monster\u2014but Nobuyoshi Araki\u2019s work transcends simple moralistic classifications. He has said of his work: \u201cThere is no conclusion. It\u2019s completely open. It doesn\u2019t go anywhere.\u201d One of the greatest Japanese photographers of our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":97648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[13533,4517],"product_tag":[1647,6121],"class_list":["post-97657","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","product_cat-photography-en","product_tag-erotica","product_tag-photography","pa_author_att-nobuyoshi-araki-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-265-x-33-cm-en","pa_isbn-9783836577410-en","pa_language-eng","pa_pages-288-2-en","pa_published-2023-08-04-en","pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n