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These things are fleeting moments in time. Only up for a few months at best, then it goes poof! You are already there, so why not preserve something of it and donate to the historical record? In 2018 I went to the Araki show in NYC. I spent 1.5 hours there looking and shooting. I can't post most if it due to content. If you want to check it out, go to the Internet Archive and look it up. Photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. I had a hard time shooing at the museum as you could not bring in a backpack. I was shooting regular photography, circular fisheye photography and infrared flash photography. I used a fishing vest to carry all that crap and the vest was bursting at the seams! So, find a way to get the job done. Almost all galleries & museums allow photography. This museum didn't allow flash photography, so I used invisible infrared flash. This was the entrance of the show...in infrared flash. (Censored) Infrared flash photo: D.D.Teoli Jr. Like I said, can't show much here and not going to fool around censoring things. So, you check it out. But the point of this post is not Araki. The point of it is to inspire you to document your world. You go to a lecture, record audio at least. You don't have to shoot a video of the whole thing. Then put it online. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Scanned photos on Thanksgiving. Just finished up subway sounds last night. 'Crowded Train' is a rare study in infrared flash by Ikko Kagari on the practice of 'chikan' (groping women on the train or subway) in Japan. I think it is from the 1980's but not sure. And maybe book title is wrong. Very underground and not easy to find the right info as it varies from source to source. Any Japanese here? What is the present day views of chikan? It looked like the gals were willing participates back in the day. Or were they just too shy to put up a ruckus? Araki made a little book on sex shops of Japan. Vintage stuff. They had a nightclub for practicing chikan in a fake subway car.

Circular Fisheye Photography from ‘The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki’ at the Museum of Sex, NYC I was going to make a big post on the Araki show, but after the mess I had with Andy Warhol on WordPress I decided to break it up into a few smaller posts. NSFW https://photographyshowarchive.art.blog/2018/12/31/circular-fisheye-photography-from-the-incomplete-araki-sex-life-and-death-in-the-works-of-nobuyoshi-araki-at-the-museum-of-sex-nyc/