The rhetorical composition between Polaroid and Pornography clearly lies at the heart of the title Polarnography.
Nobuyoshi Araki’s (Tokyo, 1940), controversial nudes of Japanese women bound with the kinbaku technique made him famous around the world, just as his visceral love for the city of Tokyo, celebrated in many of his photography series (from Tokyo Lucky Hole to Tokyo Diary, Tokyo Novel or Suicide in Tokyo). One of the most controversial and representative artists of the modern age, he is a witness to and an emblematic, and prolific example of, contemporary photography language.
A collector’s item, Polarnography has just 1,000 editions each containing 100 previously unpublished Polaroid pictures. The polaroids by the Japanese artist are reproduced in facsimile and gathered in a box which is, in turn, the duplicate of the box that held the original photographs.
