This 40th issue is dedicated to the life and legacy of Nobuyoshi Araki. Opening with his never before published portfolio qARADISE, this issue also presents a selection of contemporary Japanese photographers influenced or mentored by this celebrated master. Featuring guest authored essays by a range of experts in Japanese photography, After Araki Heaven & Hell is for the true Japanese photography enthusiast.
Specifically designed to reflect its Japanese content, this issue wraps the featured portfolios with both English and Japanese texts, including a Japanese front cover (an English back cover). This is a comprehensive guide of the emblematic artist: Araki as well as those who have followed in his footsteps.
Thank you Fisheye Magazine for featuring my series “The Loneliest Highway” as “Les coups de cœur #404″ on their site. The check out the translated article below, and the full article through the link.
“My approach is post-documentary and depends on my commitment to my subject. When I photograph, I tell the story of human nature, preservation, empathy and time. I intend to deepen my understanding of our actions and the way they influence our environment,” says William Mark Sommer. A graduate of the University of Arizona, the author has been pursuing, for fifteen years, a work inspired by life in small American towns, by the long roads that wind his country of origin, and by the melancholy that accompanies them. Graphic monochrome, The Loneliest Highway takes root precisely in this feeling. “This project was born out of my own feeling of isolation during the 2020 confinement. As soon as I was able to get out of my house again, I took my car to cut myself off from the world, to escape stress and find a some relief. Through this solitude, I experienced a cathartic, powerful moment,” says the photographer. At the various intersections of the Lincoln Highway, William Mark Sommer then composes a sensitive story, with multiple themes. Among them, his relationship to California, but also the importance of memory and passing time, the history that shapes our world, and the family ties that hold it together. A timeless story told here with great accuracy.
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Attribution: cover of the January 1955, no. 1 issue of Rokkor magazine (Tokyo, Japan). Process color printing, 30 x 20.8 cm. Editor Tamada Ken'ichirō, editorial design Horiuchi Seiichi. As seen in Kaneko Ryūichi, Toda Masako, and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photo Magazines (Singapore: Goliga, 2022). @goligagoliga. I appreciate the canine representation.
"Manchmal hat das etwas sehr Mysteriöses, wenn Frauen rauchen", sagt Peter Lindbergh, der bekannte Starfotograf, der die Schönen, wie Hanna Schygulla, Annie Morton, Karen Ferrari und viele andere berühmte Modelle fotografiert hat.”
Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, was a German photographer and filmmaker born on November 23, 1944 in Leszno, Poland. In 1978 Peter Lindbergh moved to Paris and started working internationally for Vogue, first the Italian, then the English, French, German, and American Vogue; The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. In 1988, Anna Wintour is editor in chief at American Vogue and signed Lindbergh for the magazine. He shot Miss Wintour’s first, then the revolutionary American Vogue, November 1988, cover.
He made portraits of Catherine Deneuve, Mick Jagger, Charlotte Rampling, Nastassja Kinski, Tina Turner, John Travolta, Madonna, Sharon Stone, John Malkovich and many others.
His first book, 10 Women by Peter Lindbergh, a black and white portfolio of ten top contemporary models, was published in 1996 and had sold more than 100,000 copies as of 2008.
Twice he has shot the Pirelli calendar, in 1996 and in 2002. The latter, which featured actresses instead of models for the first time, was shot on the back lot of Universal Studios and was described by Germaine Greer as “Pirelli’s most challenging calendar yet”.
There have been dozens of exhibitions featuring Peter Lindbergh’s work around the world since his photography was included in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Shots of Style exhibition in London in 1985.
After its Paris debut, Comme des Garçons exhibited a solo show of photographs by Peter Lindbergh at “Centre George Pompidou” in Paris in 1986.
Peter Lindbergh's Smoking Women, first shown in the Galerie Gilbert Brownstone in Paris in 1992, travelled to Tokyo's Bunkamura Gallery in 1994 and the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt in 1996. The same year, prompted by the reaction to the 1994 show, the Bunkamura Museum of Art accorded Peter Lindbergh a retrospective,