NOBUYOSHI ARAKI / Yoko My Love

Nobuyoshi Araki
Yoko My Love, 1979 
Hardcover with dust jacket, 120 pages
21.5 x 20.5 cm
Asahi Sonorama Tokyo

Condition: Very good -A well-preserved copy with bright illustrated boards and a tight binding. Interior pages are clean with only light, even age toning. Minor rubbing and shelf wear to the board edges and corners, with a few small bumps to the extremities consistent with age. A highly presentable copy of this increasingly scarce early hardcover edition.

~

First published in 1978, Yoko My Love is one of Nobuyoshi Araki's most personal and enduring photobooks. This second printing from 1979 revisits the intimate photographs of Araki's wife, Yoko Aoki, whose presence would come to define much of his early work. Made shortly after their marriage, the photographs move effortlessly between the domestic and the poetic, transforming everyday moments into a deeply affectionate portrait of companionship.

Neither staged nor sentimental, Yoko My Love reveals the quiet intimacy that underpins Araki's practice before the darker, more provocative work for which he later became known. Long regarded as one of the essential titles in Japanese photography, it remains a moving testament to love, memory and the photographic diary that would become central to Araki's oeuvre.