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Watch more: http://youtu.be/jwmx0D814zo Read More: http://www.foam.org/araki Foam is proud to present a major solo exhibition of the famous Japanese photographer Araki from 19 December 2014 until 11 March 2015. Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is one of the most celebrated Japanese artists of our time. Ever since he started his photographic career in the mid-1960s, he has taken tens of thousands of photographs and published more than 450 photobooks. His photographs are personal, indifferent, random, accidental, prurient, erotic, anarchistic, tragicomic, touching, vulgar and sentimental. The cumulative effect of his obsessive working method is overwhelming. For many, Araki is perhaps best known for his erotic and sometimes detached photographs. Simultaneously, his work can be very intimate and personal, often closely related to his Tokyo surroundings and to the memories of his late wife, Yoko, who died in 1990. Only by distancing himself through his lens, keeping life at an arm’s length, can the artist truly approach reality, and eventually reconcile life and death. ARAKI Ojo Shashu - Photography for the Afterlife: Alluring Hell gives a distinct reflection on Araki’s oeuvre, renowned for the master’s perpetual focus on daily life and his intertwining themes of Life and Death. The exhibition comprises both his notorious early work, as well as very recent series that have never before been shown in the Netherlands. It offers a unique and intimate insight into the perspective of an artist in the dusk of his life. The exhibition is made in cooperation with Galerie Alex Daniëls / Reflex Amsterdam. Read further: http://www.foam.org/araki A production of Foam Director / filmmaker: Bart van den Aardweg Model: Isabelle Juursema Colourist: Nelson Hillebrand Projected images: courtesy the artist and Travis Klose, ARAKIMENTARI (2005) Music: William Kouam Djoko – Deflourished. Label: Voyage Direct. (Official music video: http://youtu.be/03gD0_p3CA8) Featuring: Natsuko Odate (Araki's Exhibitions Coordinator, Yoshiko Isshiki Office) and Zippora Elders (curator at Foam)