Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940) numbers among Japan’s most important and productive contemporary photographers. Though known primarily for his nudes, as provocative as they are now controversial, Araki’s oeuvre encompasses a diversity of themes including cities, still lifes, and everyday themes.
Sentimental Journey : Winter Journey, 30.10.198
Gelatin silver print
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
This exhibition of the ALBERTINA Museum concentrates on the artist’s early output, with which he began radically renewing classic documentary photography in the 1960s under the influence of Tokyo’s various avant-garde movements. His photographic debut about the working-class boy Satchin and his brother Mabo (1963) is included here, as are his series on Tokyo’s urban life.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Laments, 1990-1996
Silbergelatineabzug
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
Sentimental Journey, 1971
Silbergelatineabzug
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
Private Photography, 1993
Silbergelatineabzug
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Sentimental Journey
At the center of this presentation is Araki’s grandiose and influential series Sentimental Journey (1971–2017). In this long-running project, he makes a theme of his own life in the form of blunt, snapshot-like photos of his wife Yoko. Much like in a diary, these intimate photos show their honeymoon, their life together as a couple, and Yoko’s untimely death. The artist only finished working on this autobiographic theme a few years ago with a final continuation of the series.
Nobuyoshi Araki
Tokyo, 1995
Silbergelatineabzug
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
Private Photography, 1993
Silbergelatineabzug
The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
The Past, 1972-1973
The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki
The Past, 1972-1973
Silbergelatineabzug
The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Sentimental Journey : Winter Journey, 1990
Silbergelatineabzug
ALBERTINA, Wien – The JABLONKA Collection © Nobuyoshi Araki
Exhibition dates
Exhibition duration: 26 May – 29 August 2021
Exhibition venue: ALBERTINA MODERN, basement | Karlsplatz 5 | 1010 Vienna
Curator: Walter Moser
Co-curator: Astrid Mahler
Works: 285 photographs, one film & several books
Opening hours Daily 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.