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A major figure in contemporary Japanese photography, Nobuyoshi Araki is known worldwide for his photographs of women bound according to the ancestral rules of Kinbaku – the Japanese art of bondage – a practice going back to the 15th century. This exhibition retraces fifty years of his work in over 400 photographs and is one of the most important ever devoted to Araki in France.

This highly significant selection, drawn from thousands of photographs the artist took between 1965 and 2016, ranges from one of the oldest series titled Theatre of love in 1965 up to hitherto unpublished works, …