Takuma Nakahira
auteur · fotograaf
Takuma Nakahira (1938–2015) was een vooraanstaande Japanse fotograaf, criticus en theoreticus. Hij is vooral bekend als medeoprichter van het invloedrijke fotografische collectief Provoke, dat tussen 1968 en 1970 een experimenteel tijdschrift publiceerde. Nakahira speelde een centrale rol in de theoretisering van het landschapsdiscours (fūkei-ron) binnen de Japanse fotografie, waarbij hij onderzocht hoe beelden interageren met stedelijke infrastructuur en kapitalistische geopolitiek. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door diverse stijlen, waaronder 'are, bure, boke' (ruw, wazig, onscherp), evenals meer klinische catalogusachtige fotografie. Hij publiceerde verschillende invloedrijke fotoboeken, onder andere 'For a Language to Come' (1970) en 'Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary' (1973). Na een alcoholvergiftiging in 1977, die resulteerde in geheugenverlies en afasie, verschoof zijn praktijk naar directere, onbemiddelde ontmoetingen met onderwerpen. Zijn nalatenschap wordt erkend door grote retrospectieven bij instellingen zoals het Art Institute of Chicago en het Yokohama Museum of Art.[1]
Thema's
- landschapsdiscours
- stedelijke infrastructuur
- media-ecologieën
- naoorlogse Japanse identiteit
Boeken
Werk van Takuma Nakahira
- Why the Botanical Encyclopedia? 1973 · Asahi Sonorama · boek · Japanese Also known as 'Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary' (Naze, shokubutsu zukan ka).
- For a Language to Come 1970 · Fūdosha · boek · Japanese Kitarubeki kotoba no tame ni.
- Circulation: Date, Place, Event 1971 · boek · Japanese Created for the Paris Biennial.
- Overflow 1974 · boek · Japanese Hanran.
- A New Gaze 1983 · boek · Japanese Aratanaru gyōshi.
- Adieu à X 1989 · Kawade Shobō Shinsha · boek · Japanese ISBN 978-4-309-26111-9 AX.
- Degree Zero—Yokohama 2003 · Osiris · boek · Japanese ISBN 978-4-9901239-1-8 Catalogue for solo show at Yokohama Museum of Art.
Tentoonstellingen
- 2017 Takuma Nakahira: Circulation Art Institute of Chicago solo
- 2003 Degree Zero—Yokohama Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama solo
Prijzen
- 1990 Society of Photography Award Society of Photography (Tokyo)
Referenties
- Takuma Nakahira. 2024 link
- Franz Prichard. Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015). Artforum. 2015 link
- Martin Parr; Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History, Volume I. Phaidon Press. 2004
- Mari Shirayama. Major Photography Magazines. 2003
- Yuri Mitsuda. Trauma and Deliverance: Portraits of Avant Garde-Artists in Japan, 1955-1970. 2012
- Provoke. Nitesha. 2018 link
- Kōtarō Iizawa. The history of Japanese photography. Yale University Press. 2003
- Bonnie Huie. Made in Japan: Review of Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. Afterimage. 2010 link
- Ryūichi Kaneko; Ivan Vartanian. Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. Aperture. 2009
- Ryūichi Kaneko; Ivan Vartanian. Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. Aperture. 2009
- Ryūichi Kaneko; Ivan Vartanian. Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and '70s. Aperture. 2009
- Franz Prichard. On 'For a Language to Come,' 'Circulation,' and 'Overflow': Takuma Nakahira and the Horizons of Radical Media Criticism in the Early 1970s. Houston Museum of Fine Arts. 2015
- Masao Adachi; Takuma Nakahira; Yūsuke Nakahara. On Landscape (1970). Museum of Modern Art. 2012
- Masao Adachi; Takuma Nakahira; Yūsuke Nakahara. On Landscape (1970). Museum of Modern Art. 2012
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Yuriko Furuhata. Cinema of actuality : Japanese avant-garde filmmaking in the season of image politics. Duke University Press. 2013
- K. Yoshida. Avant-garde art and nondominant thought in postwar Japan : image, matter, separation. Routledge. 2021
- Charles Merewether. Art, anti-art, non-art: experimentations in the public sphere in postwar Japan, 1950-1970. Getty Research Institute. 2007
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Marilyn Ivy. Discourses of the vanishing : modernity, phantasm, Japan. University of Chicago Press. 1995
- K. Yoshida. Avant-garde art and nondominant thought in postwar Japan : image, matter, separation. Routledge. 2021
- Yuri Mitsuda. For a new world to come : experiments in Japanese art and photography, 1968-1979. Houston Museum of Fine Arts. 2015
- Circulation: Date, Place, Event. 1971
- Yuri Mitsuda. Trauma and Deliverance: Portraits of Avant Garde-Artists in Japan, 1955-1970. 2012
- For a new world to come : experiments in Japanese art and photography, 1968-1979. Houston Museum of Fine Arts. 2015
- For a new world to come : experiments in Japanese art and photography, 1968-1979. Houston Museum of Fine Arts. 2015
- Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. Shōbun sha. 1973
- Philip Charrier. Nakahira Takuma's 'Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?' (1973) and the Quest for 'True' Photographic Realism in Post-War Japan. Japan Forum. 2017 link
- Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary. Shōbun sha. 1973
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Overflow. 1974
- A New Gaze. 1983
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Yuriko Furuhata. Cinema of actuality : Japanese avant-garde filmmaking in the season of image politics. Duke University Press. 2013
- Franz Prichard. Residual futures : the urban ecologies of literary and visual media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. Columbia University Press. 2019
- Degree Zero—Yokohama. Osiris. 2003
- Kuraishi Shino. Trauma and Deliverance: Portraits of Avant Garde-Artists in Japan, 1955-1970. 2012
- Society of Photography Award. Society of Photography (Tokyo). 1990
- Degree Zero—Yokohama. Osiris. 2003
- Art, anti-art, non-art: experimentations in the public sphere in postwar Japan, 1950-1970. Getty Research Institute. 2007
- Tokyo: 1955-1970. Museum of Modern Art. 2012
- Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975. Art Institute of Chicago. 2017


