
Blue Period / Last Summer : Arakinema
- Publisher
- Session Press
- Year
- 2017
- Specifications
- Softcover in slipcase
26 x 17.8 cm
Edition of 1750
Design by Geoff Han, NYC
Text by Marc Feustel
Edited by Keenan McCracken
Japanese translation by Akiko Ichikawa
English translation by Tomo Morisawa
Lithography by Sebastiaan Hanekroot, Colour & Books
Printed by Gra Plaza, Amsterdam
Two of Nobuyoshi Araki's Arakinema slide-projection performances brought into book form, worked directly from the 140 original slides. Nudes and portraits alternate with street scenes and flowers, much of the imagery drawn from the 1980s underground magazine Shashin Jidai. "Blue Period" removes colour by chemical bleaching — an act of subtraction, the past — while "Last Summer" adds colour, an act of addition, the future. A fresh look at a hidden, cinematic part of Araki's oeuvre.