AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Nobuyoshi Araki – Photographs to be Read"

An automatic camera with a date-imprinting function, a flood of words, silence and solitude – Araki manipulates all of these in every possible combination. Photography has never been a tool or medium for him. For twenty-five years he has been trying to confirm something within photography. Photography, for him, was neither a mere instrument nor a means towards an end; he has always only wanted to know if photography can depict substantial beings at all.

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