(New Edition) For the Words to Come by Nakahira Takuma

A collection of works by Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira.

After graduating from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies' Department of Spanish, Takuma Nakahira worked in various jobs before joining the magazine Gendai no Me as an editor, where he met Tomatsu Shomei and Terayama Shuji, two of Japan's leading postwar photographers. Tomatsu suggested starting a photo serialization project in the magazine, where Nakahira also met Takanashi Yutaka and Moriyama Daido, who would later work with him in Provoke. Nakahira himself began taking photographs after Tomatsu gifted him a Pentax camera. Provoke was formed in 1968, and Nakahira's first photo book, For the Words to Come, was published in 1970, the same year as the third and final issue of the group. Nakahira would later completely reject the "are bure boke" photographic expression shown in this book, which seems to leave words behind, but it remains a masterpiece that reflects the era of Provoke and the social sensibilities of the time.

"Forty years after its publication, the book has become difficult to obtain, and unfortunately only a small portion of the works included have been repeatedly introduced. These are the series of photographs that the artist himself criticized in his 1973 essay "Why a Botanical Encyclopedia?" and identified as works that needed to be overcome, but it is highly significant that these works are being presented in order to reconsider the meaning behind the artist's denial. We are republishing this book with the aim of reexamining the early photo collections of Takuma Nakahira, who continues to work daily as a photographer, and rediscovering them as works that are still relevant today." - From the publisher's description

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Title: For a Language to Come
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Osiris, 2010
Hardcover, case binding
307 x 215 x 19 mm
160 pages
Text in English
First edition
ISBN: 978-4-9901239-8-7