Nobuyoshi Araki

Known for: intimate and erotic photography; more than 500 photobooks

Nobuyoshi Araki has produced more than 500 photobooks — by far the most prolific output of any major photographer — spanning erotic photography, flower still lifes, and street scenes of Tokyo. His Sentimental Journey (1971) documented his honeymoon with his wife Yoko with an intimacy that prefigured the confessional photography of subsequent decades. He was awarded the Infinity Award for Applied or Commercial Photography by the International Center of Photography in 1993.