Araki Nobuyoshi

Araki Nobuyoshi has a "THE FACES OF JAPAN" project to visit all of Japan's 47 prefectures and take exhaustive portraits of the people of Japan. Photographing the faces of people living the local customs and history produces a record of Japan as a whole. In a sense, this act is a life's work for Araki, for whom the "face is the ultimate nude". Selecting Ishikawa as the fourth location for this project - after Osaka, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima - Araki started with a photography session in Korinbo Harbor in May 2004. In a total of three sessions, he photographed 406 groups of about 700 people in all. In addition to putting the "THE FACES OF ISHIKAWA" on full display, this exhibition also presents documentary video showing how Araki works, conversing in complete concentration with people who live for the moment, and capturing those living expressions on film.

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Nobuyoshi Araki "THE FACES OF ISHIKAWA"