Nobuyoshi Araki «A Sentimental Journey/ Winter Journey» (1991). Fotobok.

Nobuyoshi Araki «A Sentimental Journey/ Winter Journey» (1991), fotobok førsteutgave.

Teksten fortsetter på engelsk.

«It’s thanks to Yoko that I became a photographer».

- Nobuyoshi Araki.

«To live is to go through a sentimental journey, and for Araki, to photograph is to go through a sentimental journey».

- Yoko Aoki.

Araki self-published his first photo book «Sentimental Journey» in 1971. This monograph is an intimate photo essay documenting the Yoko & Araki wedding and honeymoon.

During the late 1980s Yoko was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This 1991 title chronicle Yoko & Nobuyoshi strong bond and deep intimate relationship. The book chronicle Yoko’s battle with cancer and beyond.

«A Sentimental Journey/ Winter Journey» is a work of beauty and sadness. An inmost photo diary and life-affirming love declaration.

First edition

Pro-printed photo book in hardcover color-printed slipcase

Hardcover color slipcase / 19,8 x 26,8 cm

Hardcover red cloth book / 18,7 x 26,1 cm

124 pages

Published by Shinchosha, 1991.