First Edition of this reprint of Araki's most highly regarded work.
 
 
 
45 years after his honeymoon with his wife Yoko
 
The limited reprint of a legendary photobook
 
"To live is to take a sentimental journey, and for him, to photograph is to take a sentimental journey," Yoko once said of Araki's inseparable relationship with his medium.
 
 
 
Self-published in 1971, the rare original edition had a print run of only 1,000 copies. Now the reissue the world has been waiting for has arrived.
 
 
 
After studying photography at university in the 1960s, the young Araki worked commercially at Dentsu, an advertising agency where he met Yoko Aoki, who would later become his wife. In 1971, his first photobook, titled Sentimental Journey, was published. The self-published monograph was an intimate photo essay documenting both mundane and deeply personal moments from the couple's wedding and honeymoon. At the time, Araki's open depiction of sex attracted controversial attention from both critics and the press, but as the photographer has continued to insist, his desire to capture those moments stemmed from a natural impulse, rather than an intention to shock.