For the coming words 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. At the end of the book, there are six pieces of writing published in the Asahi Journal and other publications between 1967 and 1970, as well as "About Landscapes" by poet Okada Takahiko.

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Title: For a Language to Come
Artist: Takuma Nakahira
Fudo-sha, 1970
Softcover with dust jacket, perfect binding (box is missing)
300 x 210 x 15 mm
190 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition

Condition: Good／Box missing.There are some scratches, scuffs, a tiny tear at the bottom of the back cover, and an 8cm underline, but otherwise the interior is in good condition.