Araki, a key iconoclast of great talent, is one of the most prolific photographers of his time. Having already published several hundreds of books and thousands of pictures, Araki has indeed for over fifty years revolutionised the world of photography. His outlook is both sentimental and filled with energy, whereby the Erotos (a combination of Eros and Thanatos) appears in every image. The photographs in A Crazy Old Man follow a dynamic in which the inanimate becomes alive and the living appears dead. Instant films, framed in black and white, alternate here.