• Director(s):

    KRIEF (JEAN-PIERRE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, KS VISIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2000

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD

Araki can be credited with the invention of a new genre: the photo-autobiography.

The Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki photographs the fleeting moment, providing a running commentary on his insatiable desire to record the world in all its immediacy. His numerous series of images illustrate the photographer's confrontation with sex and death with extraordinary dramatic intensity. Araki can be credited with the invention of a new genre: the photo-autobiography.