Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : hookstrapped March 17, 2018, 08:22:13 PM
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Just went yesterday. It's really good. Very well done
https://aperture.org/blog/feminism-nobuyoshi-araki/
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Thanks for link.
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I went to one of his exhibitions a few years ago and I was struck, on seeing his prints, by his ideas, and for want of a better word, his sincerity. This doesn't (to me) come across in his books. He's a very interesting and prolific artist.
An interesting point - I work with many female models and when we chat about photographers they like, Araki is often mentioned. For the FW one camera, one roll of film meet last year, I shot a pair of twins from Kazakhstan (as you do). Day jobs: international lawyer and industrial economist. Fave film waster: Araki-san. Art critics, curators and art theorists put Araki all-too-often into the pornographer/misogynist school, which hardly calls for the structuring of a compelling argument. A more interesting point is why do so many, relatively conservative, females like his work? & he famously has a never-ending source of Japanese women who want to sit for him.
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Recently a number of his models have stepped up, in part due to the #MeToo movement, to voice their sexual harassment by Araki when modeling - including most recently Kiko Mizuhara in April of this year.
Sure, a lot of women - Japanese or not - want to be photographed by Araki as there is a certain claim to fame if they are one of his models. Similarly a lot of actresses want to be in a Woody Allen film. People need to step up to the plate and not support these 'geniuses.' The argument gets old - really old: men with financial or cultural power abusing women.
https://www.koreaboo.com/news/mizuhara-kiko-reveals-sexually-harassed-speaks-metoo-movement/ (https://www.koreaboo.com/news/mizuhara-kiko-reveals-sexually-harassed-speaks-metoo-movement/)