BJÖRK by Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki is a highly controversial photographer– a result of his notoriously erotic photographs, some of which portray tight binding, or “Kinbaku-bi”. His critics have fought for censorship of his images, especially in his native Japan, however he remains one of the country’s most prolific artists. Embedded within his work is an undercurrent of his country’s traumatic past. In his 2010 photo book Tokyo hōshasen (Tokyo Radiation), Araki altered the time stamp on each image to appear to have been taken between August 6-15th, linking the photos to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some images he developed at extremely high temperatures, causing the emulsion to reticulate and break apart as though they had been exposed to heat and radiation.
At Bjork’s request Nobuyoshi Araki photographed the cover and inner sleeve pages of her 1997 remix album, Telegram.
“Imagine a universe where a green vase and a woman with fiery curls play a high-stakes game of visual chess…It’s like Bugarcheva handed us a front-row ticket to the grand opera of existence, complete with drama, romance, and a hint of existential pondering.” – ArtHunter
`With a career spanning over three decades, fashion photographer Guy Bourdin created pioneering and provocative images. Described in TIME Magazine as “tiptoeing to the edge of pornography but ending up at art,” Bourdin is best known for his iconoclastic photographs of fragmented women’s bodies, considered alternately objectifying and empowering. This distinct style emerged in the…
‘As any other Azeri family we had carpets everywhere – on the floor, on the walls, in each room. I had a carpet in my room, too. I was always playing with the patterns of the carpet imagining there were roads, trees, dragons etc. One day when my parents left for countryside, I decided to…
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