Nobuyoshi Araki Exhibition at the Barbican

Just this morning heard about this exhibition at the Barbican. This is an introduction I've just got from the website:

Nobuyoshi Araki is arguably Japan’s greatest living photographer – and certainly its most controversial.

This is the first major exhibition of Araki’s work to be held in London, and is the most comprehensive overview of his prolific career. With over 4,000 images on display, the show reflects Araki’s extraordinary breadth of work – from the shocking to the sublime – and includes new work never previously seen.

Influenced by Shunga, the erotic art of the Edo period (1603 – 1867), as well as the glossy imagery of contemporary culture, much of Araki’s work confronts taboo subjects such as sex, nudity and death head on. Subjects range from poetic scenes of old Tokyo, to sensual close-ups of exotic flowers and erotic photographs of kimono-clad women bound in rope.

Covering over forty years, this exhibition showcases the extraordinary talent of one of the most charismatic and prolific photographers working today.

Araki at the Barbican

Araki Images on the Artnet site