(New Edition) For a Language to Come by Takuma Nakahira

A new edition of the legendary photobook by Japanese photographer Takuma Nakahira

Takuma Nakahira graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, majoring in Spanish, and worked in various jobs before joining the magazine Gendai no Me as an editor. He met Shomei Tomatsu there. At Tomatsu's suggestion, a series of photographs began to be published in the magazine, where he later met Yutaka Takanashi and Daido Moriyama, both of whom he worked with at Provoke. start shooting. Forming Provoke in 1968, Nakahira's first photo book, published in 1970, the same year as its final issue No. 3, is "For the Words to Come." Although he later denied the photographic expression of "Are Bure Boke" that leaves words behind in this book, it is still a masterpiece that reflects the era of Provoke and the social sensibility of that time. It is handed down. At the end of the book, six articles published in the Asahi Journal and other publications from 1967 to 1970, as well as "Landscapes" by poet Takahiko Okada, are included.

"After 40 years since its publication, it has become difficult to obtain the book, and it has been an unfortunate situation that only a small part of the published works has been repeatedly introduced. These series of photographs are a group of works that the author himself criticized in his 1973 essay, "Why, Botanical Encyclopedia?" That should be significant enough. We are republishing this book with the intention of recapturing the early photo collections of Takuma Nakahira, who continues to be active as a photographer today, and rediscovering them as actual works." (From the publisher's description)

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Title: 来たるべき言葉のために (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
¥33,000 -

Condition: Very Good