About this artwork
For 50 years Nobuyoshi Araki has pursued carnality and sexual decadence as manifestations of a liberated morality. This view of a group of swaggering young men, an iconic rendering of Japanese projections of countercultural virility, suggests such liberation even though its subjects are fully clothed. The image was printed from a negative processed in overheated developer and perhaps distressed in other ways as well. The “manhandling” of photographic products, typically understood as precious and fragile surfaces, conveys at a material level the combination of intimacy and disrespect with which Araki approaches his social environment.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Nobuyoshi Araki
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Title
- Untitled (C-58-17-1)
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1973
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 35.3 × 52.3 cm (13 15/16 × 20 5/8 in.); Paper: 39.4 × 55.9 cm (15 1/2 × 22 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Kenneth and Christine Tanaka
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Reference Number
- 2011.29
Extended information about this artwork
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