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

Photographs by Takuma Nakahira, Edited by Daniel Abbe, Edited by Franz Prichard

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The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahiraâ€™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. Nakahiraâ€™s essays brim with urgency, relentlessly interrogating photographyâ€™s relationship to power, the connection between language and images, and the gaze. As editors and translators Daniel Abbe and Franz Prichard write, Nakahiraâ€™s essays â€œboth suggest doubt about, and possibilities for, a photographically mediated reckoning with the world.â€