Kitarubeki kotoba no tame ni (For a Language to Come)
Nakahira Takuma Japanese
Not on view
Takuma Nakahira was one of the guiding artists behind the now famous Japanese photography magazine Provoke (1968–69), which published only three issues before closing. A year later, Nakahira released his own visual manifesto, For a Language to Come, which includes 192 grainy, subjective, documentary-style photographs—mostly nighttime scenes in Tokyo. Designed by Tsunehisa Kimura and printed on glossy paper, it marks the beginning of the 1970s era of avant-garde Japanese photography books.
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