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Tokyo love
208 pages
A defiant, euphoric celebration of youth and pleasure captured in the shadow of creeping mortality.
What it feels like
This collaborative artists' book offers a brisk, vibrant immersion into 1990s Tokyo, capturing the raw, fleeting essence of youth through intimate and erotic photography. The experience is fiercely hedonistic and deliberately joyful, serving as a defiant rejection of suffering, illness, and death. Instead of dwelling on the darkness that creeps at the edges of life, the visual narrative bubbles over with pleasure, inviting the viewer to simply have a ball. The tone is exuberant yet deeply intimate, blending the distinct, raw portraiture styles of its creators into a singular celebration of vitality. It will delight lovers of contemporary art and photography who seek a sensual, life-affirming journey that embraces the ecstatic highs of living in the moment.
- Mood
- euphoric
- sensual
- vibrant
- shadow-tinged
- Tone
- exuberant
- defiant
- intimate
- hedonistic
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- defiant joy · fleeting youth · eroticism and pleasure · artistic intimacy · mortality's shadow
- The writing
- A visual language of raw, intimate portraiture paired with fiercely honest, life-affirming reflections.
- The arc
- A deliberate, euphoric plunge into the pleasures of life to stave off the creeping reality of death.
- Who it's for
- Lovers of 1990s artistic photography who crave raw, intimate portraits of youth and defiant celebrations of pleasure.
Content notes
- erotic photography
- mentions of terminal illness
- mentions of death
About the book
"I want to capture the joys of life. Not"AIDS" or "cancer" or "suffering" but joy. Closing my eyes to those realities, I want to bubble over with pleasure in these pictures. I know that the minute you let go, death comes creeping up from behind. But I want to have a ball anyway. That's exactly what I thought it would be like to work wiht Nan Goldin. Not to depict death." Nobuyoshi Araki
Description from Open Library.
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