AT THE LIMITS OF THE GAZE: SELECTED WRITINGS BY TAKUMA NAKAHIRA by Takuma Nakahira

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19601980Daniel Abbe Franz Prichard

196019681970 PROVOKE1970For a Language to Come

Gaze

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahiras influential writings on photography.

At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic TakumaNakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known outside of Japan as a founding member of Provoke, the experimental magazine of photographs, essays, and poetry, first published in 1968, and for his important photobook For a Language to Come (1970). Throughout a decades-long career, Nakahira raised incisive questions about visual culture and politics in both his photography and his writing. As part of a dynamic moment of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo, he wrote on a range of topics hardly limited to photography: art, film, journalism, literature, politics, television, and more. Nakahiras essays brim with urgency, relentlessly interrogating photographys relationship to power, the connection between language and images, and the gaze. As editors and translators Daniel Abbe and Franz Prichard write, Nakahiras essays both suggest doubt about, and possibilities for, a photographically mediated reckoning with the world.