Kishin Shinoyama

Kishin Shinoyama’s widely unseen portrait series of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, shot at Ono’s request for the cover of the couple’s 1980 album, Double Fantasy.

• Kishin Shinoyama (Japanese).
• Köln: TASCHEN, 2014.
• 174 pages.
• Hardcover.
• Part of an Art Edition of 125 (No. 126–250).
• Signed by Yoko Ono and Kishin Shinoyama.
• Accompanied by an unframed pigment print on Hahnemühle PhotoRag paper, signed by Shinoyama.
• Presented in a clothbound clamshell box.

Renowned for his sensual, provocative images, Kishin Shinoyama is one of Japan’s most controversial and acclaimed artists, at once hailed by critics and charged for public indecency.

His capacity for ease and intimacy is perhaps most poignantly expressed in his beautiful series of photographs of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, shot for the cover and promotion of the couple’s celebrated 1980 album, Double Fantasy, just three months before Lennon’s untimely death. Featuring many previously unseen images, the series resonates with a remarkable honesty, and immortalizes this iconic couple at a pivotal moment in their personal and creative relationship.