CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/25/2016

Nobuyoshi Araki: The Banquet

"After she was released from the hospital, the food she prepared was all the more full of love," influential Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is quoted in Errata Editions' reprint of the artist's 1993 photobook, The Banquet, featured today on the occasion of Araki's 76th birthday. "There is no doubt that she knew that she had only one month left to live. I had been shooting color with a macro lens with a ring strobe, which I changed to monochrome. One table lamp, a tripod, F32, one second. I can never forget the sound of that shutter’s one long second. The meal was a love affair to death."