Amagi Inkō – Runa Nagai Photo Collection

Nobuyoshi Araki

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Published by Bunka-sha in 1999, unpaginated, 22×28 cm
First edition, Hardcover with dust jacket
Condition: Near fine

Runa Nagai Photo Collection brings together Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan’s most prolific postwar photographer, and rising gravure idol Runa Nagai (永井流奈). Nagai debuted in 1997 at age 15 and quickly gained attention through magazines, photobooks, and collaborations with leading photographers such as Kishin Shinoyama and Hajime Sawatari.
In Amagi Inkō, Araki captures her at the height of her late-1990s popularity, fusing his trademark mix of eroticism and intimacy with Nagai’s youthful presence.