Softcover with obi
ISBN:
9784838704119
The Banquet (Shokuji) serves as a poignant, intimate photographic diary documenting the meals shared between Araki and his wife, Yoko, during the final period of her life before her death from uterine cancer in 1990.
The book contrasts two distinct photography styles. The first section features vivid, hyper-detailed color photographs of meals shot with a ring flash and macro lens. The second section transitions into soft, quiet black-and-white photos shot at home using natural, ambient light after Yoko was diagnosed with terminal illness, symbolizing the gradual fading of vitality and color from their shared world.
Rather than portraits of his wife, Araki turns the everyday ritual of dining into a meditation on intimacy, mortality, and love. The close-up food imagery evokes themes of nourishment, the body, and bodily decay, transforming their "last suppers" together into a visual act of memory and grieving.
Alongside the images, the book includes a written food diary, creating a personal narrative that anchors the photographs to specific moments in their daily routine.
The Banquet (Shokuji) serves as a poignant, intimate photographic diary documenting the meals shared between Araki and his wife, Yoko, during the final period of her life before her death from uterine cancer in 1990.
The book contrasts two distinct photography styles. The first section features vivid, hyper-detailed color photographs of meals shot with a ring flash and macro lens. The second section transitions into soft, quiet black-and-white photos shot at home using natural, ambient light after Yoko was diagnosed with terminal illness, symbolizing the gradual fading of vitality and color from their shared world.
Rather than portraits of his wife, Araki turns the everyday ritual of dining into a meditation on intimacy, mortality, and love. The close-up food imagery evokes themes of nourishment, the body, and bodily decay, transforming their "last suppers" together into a visual act of memory and grieving.
Alongside the images, the book includes a written food diary, creating a personal narrative that anchors the photographs to specific moments in their daily routine.
The Banquet (Shokuji) serves as a poignant, intimate photographic diary documenting the meals shared between Araki and his wife, Yoko, during the final period of her life before her death from uterine cancer in 1990.
The book contrasts two distinct photography styles. The first section features vivid, hyper-detailed color photographs of meals shot with a ring flash and macro lens. The second section transitions into soft, quiet black-and-white photos shot at home using natural, ambient light after Yoko was diagnosed with terminal illness, symbolizing the gradual fading of vitality and color from their shared world.
Rather than portraits of his wife, Araki turns the everyday ritual of dining into a meditation on intimacy, mortality, and love. The close-up food imagery evokes themes of nourishment, the body, and bodily decay, transforming their "last suppers" together into a visual act of memory and grieving.
Alongside the images, the book includes a written food diary, creating a personal narrative that anchors the photographs to specific moments in their daily routine.