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Okinawa by Nakahira Takuma
The final photo book by Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira.
"Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015) was Japan's most radical photographer in postwar photographic practice. Since the 1960s he has been active in both production and criticism, and his influence on Japanese contemporary photography is unparalleled. In 1977 he lost much of his memory due to illness, but he made a comeback by photographing in Okinawa, and continued to produce cutting-edge works until the end of his life. This work is composed of photographs taken during four trips to Okinawa in the final years of his life. For Nakahira, Okinawa was a topos that pierced the history and present of the central sovereign nation of "Japan," and it was also the place that prompted him to make a comeback as a photographer after losing his memory. His later style of "capturing objects in a vertical composition with a transparent grasp on color positive film," which became widely known through his 2002 photobook "Hysteric Six Nakahira Takuma" (Hysteric Glamour) and the 2003 exhibition "Takuma Nakahira: Return to the Basics - Yokohama" (Yokohama Museum of Art), was acquired through none other than his encounter with Okinawa. In terms of being a photobook that Nakahira himself was involved in, this new work, "Okinawa," is his last. Nakahira's photographs, created while struggling with his own life despite suffering from memory loss, are always more vivid than reality and continue to emit a brilliance that seems to awaken the dormant consciousness of everyday life." - Publisher's commentary
Limited to 600 copies, numbered.
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Title: Okinawa
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Rat Hole Gallery, 2017
Softcover, perfect binding
294 x 221 x 7 mm
Text in Japanese and English
Limited edition of 600 copies, numbered
¥33,000 -
Condition: Very good as new
"Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015) was Japan's most radical photographer in postwar photographic practice. Since the 1960s he has been active in both production and criticism, and his influence on Japanese contemporary photography is unparalleled. In 1977 he lost much of his memory due to illness, but he made a comeback by photographing in Okinawa, and continued to produce cutting-edge works until the end of his life. This work is composed of photographs taken during four trips to Okinawa in the final years of his life. For Nakahira, Okinawa was a topos that pierced the history and present of the central sovereign nation of "Japan," and it was also the place that prompted him to make a comeback as a photographer after losing his memory. His later style of "capturing objects in a vertical composition with a transparent grasp on color positive film," which became widely known through his 2002 photobook "Hysteric Six Nakahira Takuma" (Hysteric Glamour) and the 2003 exhibition "Takuma Nakahira: Return to the Basics - Yokohama" (Yokohama Museum of Art), was acquired through none other than his encounter with Okinawa. In terms of being a photobook that Nakahira himself was involved in, this new work, "Okinawa," is his last. Nakahira's photographs, created while struggling with his own life despite suffering from memory loss, are always more vivid than reality and continue to emit a brilliance that seems to awaken the dormant consciousness of everyday life." - Publisher's commentary
Limited to 600 copies, numbered.
-
Title: Okinawa
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Rat Hole Gallery, 2017
Softcover, perfect binding
294 x 221 x 7 mm
Text in Japanese and English
Limited edition of 600 copies, numbered
¥33,000 -
Condition: Very good as new