Tokyo Lucky Hole

Photographer
Nobuyoshi Araki
Publisher

Taschen America Llc
ISBN

9783822846810 — Open search and refresh status Amazon.ca — Open search and refresh status Amazon.com — Open search and refresh status AbeBooks — Open search and refresh status eBay — Open search and refresh status
Publication Year

2005
Edition

TASCHEN 25th Anniversary Edition

Softcover Paperback English, German, French 800 pages 14 × 19.6 cm 1.18 kg

Description

Nobuyoshi Araki’s “Tokyo Lucky Hole” is a visceral, unfiltered journey into the heart of Shinjuku’s Kabukicho red-light district during the mid-1980s. This TASCHEN anniversary edition compiles Araki’s exhaustive documentation of the “Lucky Hole” subculture—sex clubs where physical contact was restricted by partitions. Araki captures the performers, the patrons, and the street life with a frantic, diaristic intensity that mirrors the economic excess and social taboos of the Japanese bubble era. Part sociological study and part erotic provocation, it remains a definitive and gritty portrait of Tokyo’s urban night-life.

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