56x45.7cm
A prolific Japenese photographer known for his diaristic photographing. His work documents the quotidian elements of life from love, sex, death, consumption, clouds, flowers, bars, toys, cityscapes, people. Besides these factors he is likely most known for his nudes of women, bound and tied up with ropes.
"Women have all the charms of life itself. THey have all the essential attributes: beauty, ugliness, obscenity, purity... much more so than nature. In women, there is sea and sky. In women, there is the bud and the flower...
... I tie women's bodies up because I know their souls can't be tied. Only the physical self can be tied. Putting a rope round a woman is like putting an arm round her."
Many of his images are printed in monochrome, and black and white photos are to represent death. "To take a photo is to kill the subject.", yet he wants to resuscitate them and he does this by adding erotic feelings, passion and warmth to the body by painting over some of his photographs with paint, often reds and greens.
Although his photography wouldn't be considered to be put under the label of surrealism, his images are gritty and some scenes are of strange situations only an imaginative mind (or the subconscious mind) could think of.
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