原色の街 (Primary Color Streets) — Nobuyoshi Araki

A rare 1980s photobook by Nobuyoshi Araki, Genshoku no Machi captures Osaka in the heat and neon of summer, rendered in dense, saturated chromes. Commissioned during the peak of his commercial and diaristic output, Araki’s images here combine street photography with erotic fiction, pairing lurid downtown tableaux with a text that blurs confession and pulp. The dust jacket design—white-on-white emboss over a filmstrip of garish signage and half-shadowed pedestrians—stages the tension perfectly: this is a city both brightly lit and opaque, erotic and mundane.

Technical Sheet
Title: 原色の街 (Genshoku no Machi / Primary Color Streets)
Artist / Author: Nobuyoshi Araki
Date: 1986
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Softcover with dust jacket and obi
Dimensions: 18 × 25.7
Pages: 108
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Shinchosha
ISBN: 4103800046
Condition: Very good with light wear to edges