A piggy bank for the City’s ”treasures”.
February 28th, 2018
Category: february 2018
Follow your guide
Hello, my name is Mercurius and I will be your guide for this tour. Later on, we will explore the secrets of the Grand Central Terminal but, for now, please enjoy the wonderful blue sky above this construction site on my right, because, my dear mortals, in time, a glass metallic giant will rise bound to obstruct your view…
… thus spake Mercurius, and lo and behold:
Mercury standing atop the Tiffany clock, one of the jewels adorning the Grand Central Terminal facade.
February 28th, 2018 & June 6th, 2019
No 🚲
Well, guess what…
Broadway & 6th
February 24th, 2018
Solitude
And a certain sense of belonging.
Broadway, Midtown Manhattan
February 24th, 2018
Soggy bottoms, foggy tops
February 24th, 2018
(but it could as well have been yesterday; it was a foggy and soggy day, miserable like only a proper Monday can be; also, a helicopter crash-landed on a high rise roof, sending shivers down the spine of the entire City)
Midtown Manhattan
Slide right, then continue straight
Walk as far as you can; relish the rare luxury of having a street of New York all to your self.
Broadway, Midtown Manhattan
February 24th, 2018
Cityscapes || Old town vibes
@ NoMad
1170 Broadway
February 24th, 2018
To mariekondo or not to mariekondo…?
That is the (weekend) question.
On the other hand, a little chaos never hurt anyone. Also, I would never be able to fold my tees so perfectly. Sorry Marie, I’m just not that talented. Or patient.
Photo by Konstantinos Implikian
February 22nd, 2018
A concrete plan
for mapping Manhattan.
Urban Cartographers @ Midtown Manhattan
February 20th, 2018
*NSFW* || The Incomplete Araki
*But if you are at work and looking, I promise not to judge you…!
New York’s Museum of Sex is nowhere near the top of my ”places-to-see” list; it didn’t even make it to my ”tourist-traps-but-should-go-at-least-once” list. That was until ”The Incomplete Araki” a major retrospective about the erotic, provocative, sensual, eclectic and deeply, deeply personal work by one of the most notorious photographers of our times came up, back in 2018; it was time to make an exception.
Lady Gaga
Nobuyoshi Araki, 2011
Gelatin silver print
This print originally comes from a 2009 photoshoot with Lady Gaga for Voguy Hommes Japan, and is distinctive because it combined for the first time Gaga’s particular brand of global superstardom and Araki’s signature use of bondage.
Self-portrait with Yōko (Colourscapes)
Nobuyoshi Araki, 1991
C-print
In all the ways that Araki chooses to represent himself in his photography – whether it be via self-portrait, metaphor, brushstroke or through documentary practice – perhaps none are so charged as the ones where he seeks to express how his marriage to his wife Yōko resulted in the most complex and private component of his identity.
Colourscapes
Nobuyoshi Araki, 1991
C-print
Winter Journey
Nobuyoshi Araki, 1989-90/2005
Gelatin silver print
Sentimental Journey
Nobuyoshi Araki, 1971/2017
Gelatin sliver print
”There is a picture of Yōko sleeping on a boat on the Yanagawa River,” Araki has said, about on of his favourite images from Sentimental Journey. ”It was our honeymoon, so she was exhausted from all the sex. In Japan we say that you cross the Sanzu River when you depart to the ‘other world’. I had no intention of taking a picture like that, so I feel like maybe God or someone made me take that picture. Her posture is like that of a fetus.”
Araki and Yōko met while they were both employed at the Japanese advertising firm Dentsu, in the late 1960s. They were married in 1971 and for the next 19 years, their relationship – everyday life, sex, their cat Chiro, Yōko’s sudden diagnosis of ovarian cancer, her illness, her death, her funeral – would be the basis for photographic work infused with intimacy, unabashed directness and a kind of evolving understanding that even the ferocious love Araki felt for Yōko would end, like all journeys do.
Complement:
Start your day with a good breakfast together, 2009
From the series Experimental Relationship
Chromogenic prints
&
Soft-heeled Shoes, 2013
3D printed Polyjet photopolymers, suede shoes, metal
by Pixy Liao
India in Woodstock, 2013
From the series Pheromone Hotbox
&
Céline, 2016
From the series Vénéneuse
by Amanda Charchian
Museum of Sex, Manhattan
February 18th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 