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"123 Death 69 / ichi-ni-san-shigo Sixty-Nine: A Diary of a Photo-Obsessed Old Man A (Signed)" is a collection of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of the leading photographers of postwar Japan. In 2017, the "Photo-Obsessed Old Man" series "To Tenkuni" was published in January, and this book was published in July of the same year by the same publisher, Wise Publishing. The previous work mainly consisted of works taken from August 2015 to around February 2016, and it is likely that this book is composed of photographs taken from January 2016 onwards. The date on all the photographs is "June 9, 2016," and considering the number of illustrations and the total number of photographs included, it is likely a "date play" in which Araki deliberately manipulates the date, which is one of his specialties. As evidenced by the deliberate translation of "4." and "5." as "Death," the content is even more strongly themed on "views on life and death" than the previous work, and the composition mainly consists of snapshots taken around Shinjuku and Shibuya, sky landscapes, nudes of mature women, and still life. The overall tone is rather dark. And this time, there are many snapshots that appear to have been taken with the camera held upside down. Signed by the photographer .