Kitarubeki Kotoba Tameni Language by Nakahira Takuma (4 results)

Condition: As New. First edition. First edition. Paperback with illustrated cover and dust jacket; original cardboard slipcase with title and name of author printed on the covering sticker. 103 black and white photographs printed using the heliogravure method. Text by Okada Takahido. Graphic concept by Kimura Tsunesisa. Nakahira was the instigator of Provoke and, in a sense, its political conscience. This work definitely reflects the best of the group's aspirational work even though it appeared well after they split up. Mainly nighttime photographs, these images, taken between 1965-1970, have great expressive and lyrical force.

First Edition. Quarto. Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography and literature. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing pictures capture the reality of a postindustrial Japan hurtling out of control. The use of bleeds and double page spreads adds a cinematic freneticism to the work. (Parr / Badger, v1, 292-293; Auer 524). Near fine in wrappers with some foxing, in an almost near fine jacket, rubbed along the edges, and housed in a very good example of the distinctive bullet slipcase.

First Edition. Quarto. Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography and literature. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing pictures capture the reality of a postindustrial Japan hurtling out of control. The use of bleeds and double page spreads adds a cinematic freneticism to the work. (Parr / Badger, v1, 292-293; Auer 524). Fine in wrappers in an almost near fine jacket, rubbed a bit along the edges, and housed in a very good example of the distinctive bullet slipcase, a bit darkened at the edges, with a small red ink stamp over the printed label.

Condition: Wie neu. Fudo-sha, Tokyo. 1970. First edition, first printing. One of the most important japanese photobooks ever: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol 1, page 292/293. With the original dustjacket and with the original slipcase! Paperback with dustjacket and with slipcase. 212 x 300 mm (8 1/4 x 11 3/4). 192 pages. 103 black & white illustrations. Photographs and text by Takuma Nakahira. Text in japanese. Condition: Book inside fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket complete with the usual rubbing at the edges (happens from putting the book in and outside the slipcase). Slipcase well preserved; with one neat nick in the middle of the front. Overall fine condition! Scarce original edition! With the very scarce original dustjacket and the very scarce original slipcase! Published in 1970, `For a Language to Come` is recorded in the history of photography as the first photobook by Takuma Nakahira, the photographer who brought about a turning point in contemporary Japanese photography from the late 1960s to the early 1970s by radically breaking away from the existing image aesthetics at that time. This book consists of one hundred black and white photographs including his work from the legendary photography magazine Provoke. However, forty years after the publication of the original book, we have not as yet had the opportunity to examine (and enjoy) his works enough with the exception of a few photographs that has been repeatedly introduced on various occasions (this is particularly true in Europe and the U.S. where the history of contemporary Japanese photography remains less appreciated). Through radical self-critique, Nakahira would repudiate much of this early body of work in his 1973 essay, "Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?" and considered it as something that must be overcome. Yet, for us to reconsider the meaning of the author`s rejection of his inaugural work, it is extremely valuable to know what the works themselves show. Has our history of photography finally caught up with Nakahira? The 2010 republication of For a Language to Come with a new cover design is an attempt to engage Nakahira`s photographic point of departure again in the present, to discover this work as one that is more vibrantly resonant today. For a deeper appreciation of his critical thought and practice, the supplement to the republication presents three essays written by Nakahira in the early 70s.***************Fudo-Sha, Tokyo. 1970. Erstausgabe. Originalausgabe. Eines der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Bücher in der Geschichte der japanischen Fotografie: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol 1, Seite 292/293. Originalausgabe mit dem seltenen Original-Schutzumschlag und dem seltenen Original-Schuber! Paperback mit Schutzumschlag und Schuber. 212 x 300 mm. 192 Seiten. 103 schwarz-weiss Fotos. Fotos und Text von Takuma Nakahira. Text in japanischer Sprache. Zustand: Buch innen frisch und ohne Mängel; keine Stockflecken, keine Besitzvermerke. Schutzumschlag vollständig erhalten; mit den üblichen Abreibungen an den Kanten (passiert vom Rein- und Rausnehmen aus dem Schuber). Schuber bis auf eine kleine Macke in der Mitte der Vorderseite sehr gut erhalten! Insgesamt guter Zustand! Seltene Originalausgabe mit dem seltenen Schutzumschlag und mit dem seltenen Schuber! ja Gewicht in Gramm: 1600.