Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960–1975
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Edited by: Diane Dufour and Matthew Witkovsky
Publisher: Steidl / Le Bal / Fotomuseum Winterthur / Albertina / The Art Institute of Chicago
Book Size: 25 x 19 cm
Pages: 680 pages, 600 images
Binding: Softcover
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9783958291003
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The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the postwar era, uniting the country’s most contentious examples of protest photography, vanguard fine art, and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 70s in only three issues overall. Provoke is accordingly treated here as a model synthesis of the complexities and overlapping uses of photography in postwar Japan. The writing and images by Provoke’s members – critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama – were suffused with the tactics developed in some Japanese protest books which made use of innovative graphic design and provocatively “poor” materials. Recording live actions, photography in these years was also an expressive form suited to emphasize and critique the mythologies of modern life with a wide spectrum of performing artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Koji Enokura, and Jiro Takamatsu. (Steidl text)
Publisher: Steidl / Le Bal / Fotomuseum Winterthur / Albertina / The Art Institute of Chicago
Book Size: 25 x 19 cm
Pages: 680 pages, 600 images
Binding: Softcover
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9783958291003
NEW
The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the postwar era, uniting the country’s most contentious examples of protest photography, vanguard fine art, and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 70s in only three issues overall. Provoke is accordingly treated here as a model synthesis of the complexities and overlapping uses of photography in postwar Japan. The writing and images by Provoke’s members – critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama – were suffused with the tactics developed in some Japanese protest books which made use of innovative graphic design and provocatively “poor” materials. Recording live actions, photography in these years was also an expressive form suited to emphasize and critique the mythologies of modern life with a wide spectrum of performing artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Koji Enokura, and Jiro Takamatsu. (Steidl text)
