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Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015) is one of Japan's most legendary post-war photographers.
In 1968, Nakahira, with the help of critic Kōji Taki, photographer Yutaka Takanashi and poet Takahiko Okada, founded Provoke, a journal devoted to photography. Joined for the second issue by photographer Daido Moriyama, they set out the ideas and principles governing their artistic practice, which broke with traditional Japanese photography marked by social realism. This journal, which existed for only two years and was published only four times (three issues and one book), had a profound impact on the Japanese visual arts. Among other things, it familiarized the public with the are, bure, boke style, which proposed a new aesthetic characterized by a raw, blurred and blurred appearance. Nakahira recently participated in the exhibition "For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979", held this summer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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