Softcover with obi
ISBN:
9784872330021
Tokyo Lucky Hole is a documentary project capturing the underbelly of Tokyo's sex industry, specifically focusing on the red-light districts like Shinjuku's Kabukicho during the height of Japan's economic bubble years in the late 1980s.
True to Araki's confessional style, the project documents his unvarnished encounters with sex workers, hostesses, and patrons in peep shows, brothels, and love hotels, blurring the line between documentary and personal performance.
The images capture the hedonistic, transient, and transactional nature of urban nightlife during a period of extreme financial excess, juxtaposing raw intimacy with commercial exploitation. Renowned for its explicit content, the book pushes boundaries with direct flash photography that highlights the grit, artificiality, and vulnerability of Tokyo's subterranean adult entertainment culture.
Tokyo Lucky Hole is a documentary project capturing the underbelly of Tokyo's sex industry, specifically focusing on the red-light districts like Shinjuku's Kabukicho during the height of Japan's economic bubble years in the late 1980s.
True to Araki's confessional style, the project documents his unvarnished encounters with sex workers, hostesses, and patrons in peep shows, brothels, and love hotels, blurring the line between documentary and personal performance.
The images capture the hedonistic, transient, and transactional nature of urban nightlife during a period of extreme financial excess, juxtaposing raw intimacy with commercial exploitation. Renowned for its explicit content, the book pushes boundaries with direct flash photography that highlights the grit, artificiality, and vulnerability of Tokyo's subterranean adult entertainment culture.
Tokyo Lucky Hole is a documentary project capturing the underbelly of Tokyo's sex industry, specifically focusing on the red-light districts like Shinjuku's Kabukicho during the height of Japan's economic bubble years in the late 1980s.
True to Araki's confessional style, the project documents his unvarnished encounters with sex workers, hostesses, and patrons in peep shows, brothels, and love hotels, blurring the line between documentary and personal performance.
The images capture the hedonistic, transient, and transactional nature of urban nightlife during a period of extreme financial excess, juxtaposing raw intimacy with commercial exploitation. Renowned for its explicit content, the book pushes boundaries with direct flash photography that highlights the grit, artificiality, and vulnerability of Tokyo's subterranean adult entertainment culture.