1. Dai Koga (Grand Light Picture Scroll) (New work)
This is one of Araki’s latest series, depicting married women of varied ages. The women’s evident trust of their photographer allows them to transcend a form of self-presentation that is merely sexual to celebrate with their beings the joys of living, and Araki’s camera responds to this transformation with unconstrained encouragement. The presentation of these photographs in the manner of giant scroll-paintings from Japanese history serves to enhance the powerful life force inherent in the pictures. Araki himself has deemed this series “the closest thing to photography as I conceive of it now.” The series also provides an antithesis to homogenous standards of beauty and to the pin-up.
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Dai Koga (Grand Light Picture Scroll), 2017
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Dai Koga (Grand Light Picture Scroll), 2017