Araki - Polaevacy signiert

Araki, Nobuyoshi. Polaevacy. Tokyo, Shobunsha, 2000. 128 pp. With 1 enclosed orig. polaroid photo, signed by Araki, as well as numerous col. Softcover with color illustrated OU in original slipcase with mounted col. Cover label in Japanese (artist's name and title as well as further note in pencil in German on cover label) - One of 500 copies with the Polaroid addition - 'A Polaroid is very personal: it's mine and yours, it belongs to both of us. Photography won't expand without such elements... You take a color photo with Polaroid and ther's no sense of it being grainy; it's all wet and slippery. It makes you want to touch it. I like that. You use this camera and it has the effect of bringing to the fore what you want to see and touch.' (Nobuyoshi Araki. Self, Life, Death. Exhibition catalog, Barbican Art Gallery. London, 2005. p. 413.) - Polaroid in protective sleeve in cardboard passe-partout - Enclosed original belly band (somewhat stained).