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- Then he said something more complicated about his practice. As ever with (Nobuyoshi) Araki, whose native Japanese is riddled with jokes and double entendres, the translator struggled to explain what he was saying, but it was something along the lines of: "In all my time with Yoko, I had thought that I was photographing love, that it was the subject of my work, but finally, when I look at these photographs of Yoko, I think that love is missing, that somehow I failed to capture it."
- ...to return to Araki's doubt about what his pictures actually show, even if he is not clear that he succeeded in photographing love, then how, we might ask, are we supposed to see it or feel it, even when we know, deep down, that it must have been, and so must be, present?
This space of doubt, which I described at the outset as being so essentially linked, and in the most complicated way, to the convention that photography can be characterized as objective, is the real subject of many of the bodies of work included in "Love Songs"....
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