Name: Nobuyoshi Araki. Moi, la vie, la mort. Phaidon, 2007.
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Published by Phaidon in 2007, Moi, la vie, la mort is the most comprehensive single-volume survey of Nobuyoshi Araki published to date. The book covers forty years of the Tokyo photographer's practice, from Sentimental Journey (1971) through Tokyo Story (1989) and Erotos (1993), and structures everything around the three subjects that run through the work: himself, life, and death. Many of the photographs included had never been published before, drawn alongside the major series for which Araki is known. The editorial team is built out of curators who have followed Araki across both Japanese and European contexts. Edited by Akiko Miki (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), Yoshiko Isshiki (longtime Araki collaborator, Tokyo), and Tomoko Sato (Barbican Art Gallery, London). Essays by Ian Jeffrey, Yuko Tanaka of Hosei University, and Jonathan Watkins of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. The book includes an interview between Araki and Hans Ulrich Obrist recorded in Tokyo on 31 July 2001, and the first French translation of a wide selection of Araki's own writings, which had circulated in Japan for years without ever crossing over. An annotated and illustrated bibliography of two hundred Araki books, compiled by photography critic Kotaro Iizawa, closes the volume. Hardcover, beau livre format. French language edition. ISBN 9780714858050. Sourced for MIG by Paris Image Unlimited as part of a thirty-three-title curation of rare art, photography, and design books. A reference for anyone working through postwar Japanese photography, the ukiyo-e lineage in contemporary image-making, or Araki's bibliography as an object of study in itself.