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At the Limits of the Gaze: Selected Writings by Takuma Nakahira

by Takuma Nakahira

Photography, language, and the politics of looking

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Photography, language, and the politics of looking

Bringing Takuma Nakahira’s writings together in English for the first time, this collection opens a view onto his work as both photographer and critic. Its essays range beyond photography into art, film, journalism, literature, politics, and television, reflecting a period of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo. Across these subjects, Nakahira examines how images and language shape one another, how photography relates to power, and what it means to look at the world through photographs. The book offers a way into the ideas associated with Provoke and Nakahira’s wider engagement with visual culture.

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  • Readers interested in Japanese photography and the history of Provoke
  • Those exploring the intersection of photography, politics, and visual culture
  • Readers seeking English translations of Takuma Nakahira’s critical writings

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Photography and powerLanguage and imagesVisual cultureArtistic and political experimentationThe gaze

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Book overview

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira's influential writings on photography.

At the Limits of the Gaze collects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known outside of Japan as a founding member of Provoke, the experimental magazine of photographs, essays, and poetry, first published in 1968, and for his important photobook For a Language to Come (1970). Throughout a decades-long career, Nakahira raised incisive questions about visual culture and politics in both his photography and his writing. As part of a dynamic moment of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo, he wrote on a range of topics hardly limited to photography: art, film, journalism, literature, politics, television, and more. Nakahira's essays brim with urgency, relentlessly interrogating photography's relationship to power, the connection between language and images, and the gaze. As editors and translators Daniel Abbe and Franz Prichard write, Nakahira's essays "both suggest doubt about, and possibilities for, a photographically mediated reckoning with the world."
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