215x306x18 mm, hardcover, 160 pages

This book is a reprint of For a Language to Come, published in 1970, Takuma Nakahira's iconic book. In 1968, he co-founded Provoke, a 3 issues influent newspaper, which questioned the boundaries of photography in a tumultuous social context. It also tended to show a new radical and revolutionary type of photography, defined under the expression are, bure, boke [grainy, blurry, out-of-focus]. For a Language to Come is a manifest which develops the theory that an image is not an idea, but a fragment of reality caught by the lens, which provides a new status allowing the definition of a new language. Shot in Tokyo, the photographs show the night, the fog? edited in an illogical way, it explores urban landscapes, pieces of streets, passersby? leading to an hallucinatory effect and, according to the Provoke precepts, to a « provocative material for thoughts ».