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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Araki Nobuyoshi

Names:
Other: Araki 
Other: Nobuyoshi Araki 
Dates:  1940, 25 May -
Born:  Japan, Tokyo
Active:  Japan
Gender:  Male
Website:  www.arakinobuyoshi.com/index.html
 
  
One of the most famous of Japanese photographers and also one of the most prolific with a seemingly endless series of books. In Wikipedia (Oct 2007) it stated that he had published over 350 books. His photographs are frequently erotic and some would say pornographic.

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. 
[NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.]
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Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Araki Nobuyoshi.] 
  
• Tucker, Anne Wilkes et. al. 2003 The History of Japanese Photography (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.334 [Short biography on Araki Nobuyoshi.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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