- This major publication provides the most comprehensive overview yet of Nobuyoshi Araki's (b.1940) prolific 40-year career
- Arguably Japan's greatest living photographer - and certainly its most controversial - consistently challenging artistic and social conventions in post-war Japan
- The first book to examine Araki's work from a wide variety of viewpoints: Japanese and European; female and male, including all his major works, such as Sentimental Journey (1971), Tokyo Story (1989) and Erotos (1993)
- Araki's writings, widely admired and published in Japan, are translated into English for the first time
- Includes a complete illustrated and annotated bibliography of 200 of Araki's own books