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"Summer Novel" is a photo collection by Nobuyoshi Araki, a leading Japanese photographer known by his nickname Araki. When this book was published in the late 1990s, Heibonsha released a complete collection of 20 books, and later launched the new "Complete Collection of Araki Nobuyoshi Literature." In the midst of this process, this book was titled "Novel" due to its literary approach, but the background to this is the intention to "write a novel using only photographs" (from the afterword). This book is a collection of events from the summer of 1997, during which the "Araki Retrographs" exhibition was also held at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. At the end of the book, there is a record of the exhibition and an explanation of the works by curator Yoko Uchida. The monochrome, vertical photographs feature personal subjects such as the familiar veranda, the pet cat Ciro, cityscapes, nudes, and drinking parties, but in Uchida's words, "Araki is not a photographer who relies on his photographic technique. His technique of composition and framing to capture a moment is genius, and he is simply good at taking pictures. But what interests him most is the act of capturing a moment alive." These photographs are full of the charm of Araki's photography.
