This new abridged edition of the highly acclaimed Self Life Death provides an overview of Nobuyoshi Araki`s (b.1940) prolific forty year career, featuring his finest and most iconic images in a new, expanded format. Arguably Japan`s greatest living photographer - and certainly its most controversial - Araki consistently challenges artistic and social conventions in postwar Japan. The book examines Araki`s work from a wide variety of viewpoints: Japanese and European; female and male, including all his major works, such as Sentimental Journey (1971), Tokyo Story (1989) and Erotos (1993). Araki`s writings, widely admired and published in Japan, which were translated into English for the first time for Self Life Death, are also included. At this affordable and accessible format, a new audience of photography students and enthusiasts will be able to own a book on this influential photographer.