Tokyomania

Paris: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. 96pp. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated front endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "Araki's formative years were spent in 60s Japan; a world in which all that was sexual was obscured and silenced. In order to break free from this realm of sexual complexes and denial, he began taking photographs that burst virulently out of the confines of it somber, nocturnal world. Using only his camera, he captured this world's darkness and repression, which were to become both his virtue and his vice." (Germano Celant). Profusely illustrated with color and b/w white photographs aiming to break through the oppressive societal limitations. Text in French, Japanese and English. Minor wear.