We're heading out later today to catch an art show. I know, very sophisticated, right? Well, this ain't some nansy pansy abstract malarkey. This is cosplay!
At pixiv Zingaro in Nakano, west Tokyo, from February 16th to 27th COSPLAY SHOWCASE will feature ten large prints of sexy cosplayers, selections from the photo book by Nobutsugu Sugiyama, which went on sale at the end of last month.
The book is based on an iPad and iPhone app where 120 cosplayers were dressed up in their finest, and then photographed with revolving technology -- so the final image can rotate. They called it ...
Man, I can't BELIEVE I missed this!
To promote the global release of the Tenga 3D, the new designer masturbator, Tenga held a special exhibition -- Tenga 3D Museum of Art -- in Harajuku, central Tokyo, to celebrate the art of the world's most stylish adult toy.
It included photos and exhibits from photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, film director Hiroyuki Kado, designer Keisuke Takahashi, and artist Noboru Tsubaki. The works featured suitably stylishly erotic images of dancers like Kim Ito, all holding one (or more! because you can't have too many) of the five varieties of the new Tenga ...
Probably the most famous erotic commercial photographer in Japan is Kishin Shinoyama.
Like Araki he's a bit of an enfant terrible even just recently got into trouble with the police for shooting a nude session with JAV porn star Saori Hara in public.
Typical of Tokyo cop efficiency, the photo book was already long published by the time they realized it included naked photos taken outside at night.
He's known for taking lots of clothed and semi-clothed shots of idols and models, but his mainstream fame was secured by very revealing photo books featuring actresses like Rie ...
Yuki Aoyama has a thing for school girls. Well...don't we all?!
But he takes photos of them. More precisely, he takes photos of their bodies, asses, legs and underwear. Anything but their faces. These are then published as "art".
Arguments of art vs. porn aside, we really, really like what he's doing! His latest photo book is called "Schoolgirl Complex", which pretty much summarizes my ...
Today we wanted to introduce you to one of the premier image-makers of contemporary Tokyo erotica, photographer Yasumasa Yonehara.
Yonehara is very much in the Araki mold of photography -- grainy, shaky, snapped-from-the-hip kind of shots... and filled with girls, boobs, legs. He seems to recruit his ladies in the clubs, take them back to hotels for shoots -- and then who knows what else?!
If you can't make it to Tokyo for any of his gallery shows, he seems to occasionally have exhibitions in New York too. And his regular blog for Hypebeast is always guaranteed to have ...
