Nobuyoshi Araki: Bondage
Nobuyoshi Arakiwas born in Tokyo in 1940.  Given a  camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking  pictures ever since.  He studied photography and film at Chiba  University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating.   In 1970 he created his famousXeroxed Photo Albums, which he  produced in limited edition and sent to friends, art critics, and people  selected randomly from the telephone book.  Over the years, his bold,  unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a  great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native  Japan), a fact that had not phased the artist nor diminished his  influence.  To date, Araki has published over 350 books of his work.