Comments on: the philosopher and the trickster: daido moriyama and nobuyoshi araki http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/09/12/the-philosopher-and-the-trickster-daido-moriyama-and-nobuyoshi-araki/ "...that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me)." Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Pristine at d332.com http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/09/12/the-philosopher-and-the-trickster-daido-moriyama-and-nobuyoshi-araki/#comment-25 Pristine at d332.com Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:32:28 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=14#comment-25 Tarkovsky once said that it is impossible to relay one's personal experience over to a viewer, audience, or the next person. I think it's impossible to sense from anyone's photography anything but the reading of ourselves upon their images. I like the fact that Araki has images of his wife. His bondage stuff doesn't look any different from anyone else's bondage pics. They look like miscroscope slides of scientific studies. However, Araki's other stuff is F-A-N-T-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! The street portraits, the flowers, the food, the self portraits. In my opinion, it's the non-bondage stuff that really redeems his pop appeal. I am struck by the sense that there's a serious inspired genius side to Araki, and the side that just shoots the pornos to support the serious inspired side. I could be wrong. Maybe he's just a genius dirty old man. Araki's embrace of disintegrating flowers is a thing of marvelous beauty. I love Mapplethorpe's pistils, but his fear of their degenerating state (which in itself is a process that gives beauty to living, what silence is to sound, and stillness is to movement) effecctively shields us from the complete picture that is the momentary joy to living and blossoming. Tarkovsky once said that it is impossible to relay one’s personal experience over to a viewer, audience, or the next person. I think it’s impossible to sense from anyone’s photography anything but the reading of ourselves upon their images.

I like the fact that Araki has images of his wife. His bondage stuff doesn’t look any different from anyone else’s bondage pics. They look like miscroscope slides of scientific studies. However, Araki’s other stuff is F-A-N-T-A-B-U-L-O-U-S! The street portraits, the flowers, the food, the self portraits. In my opinion, it’s the non-bondage stuff that really redeems his pop appeal.

I am struck by the sense that there’s a serious inspired genius side to Araki, and the side that just shoots the pornos to support the serious inspired side. I could be wrong. Maybe he’s just a genius dirty old man.

Araki’s embrace of disintegrating flowers is a thing of marvelous beauty. I love Mapplethorpe’s pistils, but his fear of their degenerating state (which in itself is a process that gives beauty to living, what silence is to sound, and stillness is to movement) effecctively shields us from the complete picture that is the momentary joy to living and blossoming.

]]> By: Nick http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/09/12/the-philosopher-and-the-trickster-daido-moriyama-and-nobuyoshi-araki/#comment-24 Nick Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:20:50 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=14#comment-24 i first saw moriyamas photographs a few years ago and they put me at unease immediately. the images themselves are often uneasy, but perhaps it was the attempt to understand them that seemed most disturbing. since, i have attempted to learn and understand as much as i can of his work and its source. intrigued by both image, question and message. im lucky enough to have met with moriyama san a couple of times. he is a gentle and kind man,,who smokes many cigarettes! your writing is very enlightening, i thnak you for helping with my understanding. i first saw moriyamas photographs a few years ago and they put me at unease immediately. the images themselves are often uneasy, but perhaps it was the attempt to understand them that seemed most disturbing.

since, i have attempted to learn and understand as much as i can of his work and its source. intrigued by both image, question and message.

im lucky enough to have met with moriyama san a couple of times. he is a gentle and kind man,,who smokes many cigarettes!

your writing is very enlightening, i thnak you for helping with my understanding.

]]> By: Bjorke http://the-space-in-between.com/2004/09/12/the-philosopher-and-the-trickster-daido-moriyama-and-nobuyoshi-araki/#comment-23 Bjorke Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:24:23 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=14#comment-23 Have you see "Arakimentary"? Moriyama appears in it as well to speak about his friend. There was a Japanese docudrama made about the life and death of Araki Yoko. DVDs pop up regularly on EBay, as do copies of Araki's "Sentimental Journey" book. Have you see “Arakimentary”? Moriyama appears in it as well to speak about his friend.

There was a Japanese docudrama made about the life and death of Araki Yoko. DVDs pop up regularly on EBay, as do copies of Araki’s “Sentimental Journey” book.

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