For a Language to Come by Takuma Nakahira

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.