Near DEATH Experience + COMPLETE MEMORY LOSS = New Photo Perspective // Nakahira Takuma

Takuma Nakahira was one of the most radical figures in postwar Japanese photography, a co-founder of the Provoke collective and a driving force behind the are-bure-boke style of grainy, blurry, out-of-focus imagery. His early book For a Language to Come (1970) became a landmark in experimental photography, rejecting traditional composition in favor of raw fragments that reflected the turbulence of late-1960s Japan. Politically engaged and philosophically rigorous, Nakahira saw photography as a way to question perception, language, and society itself. After suffering memory loss in the late 1970s, he rebuilt his practice through relentless daily shooting, resulting in works like *Circulation: Date, Place, Events*, which emphasized photography as process over perfection. This video explores Nakahira’s groundbreaking ideas, his influence on Japanese photography, and his enduring legacy as a photographer who never stopped interrogating the medium.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Circulation
5:55 Who is Nakahira Takuma?
7:11 Provoke
9:52 Criticism
13:13 Can Photography Revive Language?