¥3,520
Overflow: Nakahira Takuma
This is a collection of works that reveals for the first time the full scope of "Flood," an installation work by Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira, which was released in 1974.
"Flood" is an installation work measuring 6 meters wide and 1.6 meters tall and consisting of 48 color photographs, which Takuma Nakahira created and exhibited for the "15 Photographers" exhibition (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) held in 1974. Ivy crawling up a wall, manholes on the street, tires of large trucks, sharks in an aquarium seen through glass, the inside of a subway station... the photographs in Flood are fragments of the city that the photographer encountered and captured every day - they are also eerie cracks in an urban space overflowing with information, products, and things. In order to present the installation within the constraints of a photo book, an attempt has been made to create a layout that precisely reproduces the arrangement of the works in the exhibition, with multiple images interfering with each other on the page. In his essay, Franz K. Pritchard closely traces the relationship between Nakahira's concept of a "picture book" presented in his 1973 book "Why a Botanical Book?" and his work "Flood," carefully discussing Nakahira's search for a way to explore both the practice and theory of photography. The translation is by Kuraishi Shinobu. "Flood" forces us as viewers to experience the interplay of a seemingly random distribution of fragments, surfaces, and remnants. In so doing, however, we sense the undifferentiated juxtaposition of parts of an incomplete whole. This calls to mind Nakahira's definition of the form of a "picture book" in "Why a Botanical Book?" - Franz K. Pritchard (from his essay in this book)
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Title: Overflow
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Case Publishing, 2018
Soft cover, perfect binding
363 x 258 x 6 mm
64 pages
Text in Japanese and English
ISBN: 978-4-908526-19-0
First edition
¥3,520 -
Condition: Sample copy in good condition/Sample book, cover scuffs, discoloration, scratches, small stains
"Flood" is an installation work measuring 6 meters wide and 1.6 meters tall and consisting of 48 color photographs, which Takuma Nakahira created and exhibited for the "15 Photographers" exhibition (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) held in 1974. Ivy crawling up a wall, manholes on the street, tires of large trucks, sharks in an aquarium seen through glass, the inside of a subway station... the photographs in Flood are fragments of the city that the photographer encountered and captured every day - they are also eerie cracks in an urban space overflowing with information, products, and things. In order to present the installation within the constraints of a photo book, an attempt has been made to create a layout that precisely reproduces the arrangement of the works in the exhibition, with multiple images interfering with each other on the page. In his essay, Franz K. Pritchard closely traces the relationship between Nakahira's concept of a "picture book" presented in his 1973 book "Why a Botanical Book?" and his work "Flood," carefully discussing Nakahira's search for a way to explore both the practice and theory of photography. The translation is by Kuraishi Shinobu. "Flood" forces us as viewers to experience the interplay of a seemingly random distribution of fragments, surfaces, and remnants. In so doing, however, we sense the undifferentiated juxtaposition of parts of an incomplete whole. This calls to mind Nakahira's definition of the form of a "picture book" in "Why a Botanical Book?" - Franz K. Pritchard (from his essay in this book)
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Title: Overflow
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Case Publishing, 2018
Soft cover, perfect binding
363 x 258 x 6 mm
64 pages
Text in Japanese and English
ISBN: 978-4-908526-19-0
First edition
¥3,520 -
Condition: Sample copy in good condition/Sample book, cover scuffs, discoloration, scratches, small stains