Arakitronics
€ 75
Published by Fugashobo in 1994, 382 pages, 21×26 cm
Text by Kotaro Lizawa, design by Propeller Art Works
First edition, hardcover, with obi
Condition: Near fine
Arakitronics / Arakitronics is a collection of images reconstructed for the CD-ROM Arakitronics, the first work where Araki used a digital camera. Shot in a studio with a single female model, it is composed mainly of fetish nudity dressed in fishnets and kimonos.
“Araki’s attempt here is a challenge to the traditional way of photography that gives a privileged meaning to one cut and is to be governed by arbitrary aesthetics. The essential anarchism of the image is opposed to the principle that has continued to secretly control photography”, photo critic Koitaro Iizawa wrote at the end of the book
When printing, some photos are rough and lacking in resolution, but they are expressing “the power inherent to Eros”.
A superb copy with obi