305x215x23 mm
good general condition, complete copy, slight traces of wear and humidity

softcover, vintage cardboard slipcase, graphism by Tsunehisa Kimura, rotogravure printing by Tokyo Inshokan Printing Co., LTD, texts in Japanese par Takuma Nakahira et Takahiko Okada, reading from right to left, 192 pages


Published in 1970, For a Language to Come is 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, the photographs explore urban landscapes, pieces of streets, passersby leading to an hallucinatory effect and, according to the Provoke precepts, to a « provocative material for thoughts ».