荒木經惟 Araki Tokyo Lucky Hole (ADULT ONLY)

身著深色西裝的日本男性，目光牢牢盯著他們走進的店家地板，因為地面的鏡子暴露著女店員的私密部位。1978 年，從大阪一間外觀普通的咖啡店開始，她們的迷你裙內沒有內褲的消息傳開了。男性顧客在外面排隊等候，支付三倍於平常的咖啡價格，只為一瞥年輕女性不經意的裙底風光。
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幾年之內，日本的色情產業遍地開花，越來越多荒誕的服務席捲各地，當中最受歡迎的地方是東京一家名為「Lucky Hole 幸運洞」的俱樂部──上門的客人站在透明壓克力板的一邊，女侍站在隔開的對側，在他們之間有一個洞，足以容納男性身體的特定部位。
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日本情色攝影大師荒木経惟緊緊抓住了這股浪潮。在 1985 年 2 月〈色情營業修正法〉頒布前近三年的時間裡，他橫行東京新宿的紅燈區，以鏡頭鼓舞著更多挑逗性光景，拍下鏡子牆、床單、幸運洞之前的原始人性。毫無扭捏男女姿態，濃縮為攝影師逾 800 幅的幻想，以一個過去時代的自由主義精神被記錄下來；對一些人來說是感官至上的宣言，對另一些人來說或是淫穢的集合，《Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole》無疑是荒木経惟最粗野的創作頂峰。

Welcome to the era of the no-panties coffee shop: Tokyo "entertainment centers" in the early 1980s photographed by Araki   It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto whose waitresses famously wore no panties under their miniskirts and see-through pantyhose. As word began to spread, similar establishments popped up across the country. Men lined up outside these cafés waiting to pay three times the usual price for coffee served by a panty-free young woman, hoping to catch a fortuitous glimpse. Within a few years, a new craze took hold: the no-panties "massage" parlor. Competition for customers led these new types of businesses to offer an increasingly bizarre range of services: fondling clients through holes in coffins whilst they lie naked inside playing dead, interiors catering to commuter-train fetishists, young virgin role-playing, etc. Amongst these many destinations was a Tokyo club called Lucky Hole. Here, the premise was ridiculously simple: clients stood on one side of a plywood partition, a hostess on the other; in between them was simply a hole big enough for a certain part of the male anatomy to pass through.

Nobuyoshi Araki was a frequent visitor to the sex clubs of Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood, and he photographed them profusely until the golden age of Japan’s sex industry came to a screeching halt in February 1985, with the enactment of the New Amusement Business Control and Improvement Act. In over 800 photos, Tokyo Lucky Hole documents the free-for-all spirit of those clubs via Araki’s lens.   Text in English, French, and German

Japan's sex industry in full flower. In more than 800 photos, Nobuyoshi Araki captures the sex shows, orgies, and bizarre crazes of Tokyo's Shinjuku red light district. From no-panties massage parlors to the notorious commuter-train fetishists, this is the last word on an age of bacchanalia, infused with moments of humor, poetry, and questioning interjections.

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