2. Nobuyoshi Araki. Sentimental Journey in The Japanese Box: Facsimile Reprint of Six Rare Photographic Publications of the Provoke Era. Paris: Edition 7L; Göttingen: distributed by Steidl Publishers, 2001, [p.78-79].
The greatest impact of Provoke was not stylistic, but that it brought self-expression into photography. Nobuyoshi Araki described Provoke as "like a bomb... I was jealous, I wanted to be part of it but I couldn't, so I had to do something else." Araki's career took off just as Provoke dissolved (he is most famous in the West for his images of women in bondage, but his work is more varied.). He described his 1971 photobook Sentimental Journey (Senchimentaru na tabi) as an "I-novel." The book is a document of Araki and his wife Yōko's very ordinary honeymoon, but the common holiday pictures are mixed with the more personal images of Yōko's face as they have sex and her brushing her teeth in the morning.

"Rough, Blurred, and Out Of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Post-War Japanese Photography," Case 7, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, January 2-February 27, 2012