Thursday, July 04, 2013

Takuma Nakahira: Circulation: Date, Place, Events

Takuma Nakahira: Circulation: Date, Place, Events at Yossi Milo Gallery. "...Takuma Nakahira (Japanese, b. 1938) is a writer, critic, political activist and photographer with a legendary past who radically changed Japanese visual culture. By shooting stark, black-and- white images that are purposely blurry and grainy, Nakahira broke with Japan’s photographic history of social realism and allowed elements of uncertainty and expression into his work. Nakahira bases his photographic practice in the act of seeing and attempting to capture 'pieces of reality cut out by means of the camera,' a statement made by Nakahira and critic, Kōji Taki in the first issue of Provoke."