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Takuma Nakahira’s For A Language To Come has just been re-released by Osiris in Japan. You can now get your hands on a copy for less than 10,000yen instead of US$10,000, which is a pretty decent cost-saving. I haven’t seen the book yet, but I am willing to go out on a limb and say this is a must-have, if only for the fact that Nakahira burned most of his black-and-white work and so this is one of the rare opportunities you’re going to have to see it. It even has ‘bonus features’: a reworked cover and a supplement including a critical introduction and three essays by Takuma Nakahira translated into English for the first time. This book is part of a growing number of Japanese photobooks that are being released with an eye on the global market or even exclusively for consumption outside of Japan… Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, a recent collection of Yukata Takanashi’s black-and-white work and the book on books on his masterpiece, Toshi-e.

Read more about Nakahira here.

Just to add: I have seen the book already at Schaden.com. It is very well printed. 

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Takuma Nakahira (left) and unidentified, Paris, 1971. From Circulation: Date, Place, Events(2012).

At that point, I had covered the wall space allotted to me, the floor below it, the reception desk, and the poles holding up the exhibition hall with the photographs I had taken. Furthermore, many of these had been torn down here and there, sometime by themselves of by someone’s mischief, and scattered all over the place. These photographs were apparently considered eyesores, yet I flatly refused their request [to move the photos]. My “work of art” included the total process of photographing, developing, and displaying these photographs everyday, running around like a mouse on a treadmill. Thus, the mountain of photographs that resulted were mere traces of a particular span of time I had lived, and therefore had to be presented and openly accessible to others as best as possible.

Takuma Nakahira, “The Exhaustion of Contemporary Art: My Pariticpation in the Seventh Paris Biennale” (first published in 1971, translated and reprinted in Circulation: Date, Place, Events(2012).

©Shōmei Tōmatsu, 1964, Takuma Nakahira, Shinjuku, Tokyo

C-177 by Takuma Nakahira, 1971

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

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Takuma Nakahira, the photographer (1967)
byShomei Tomatsu

*Takuma Nakahira: παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Takuma Nakahira, Editor (1964)
by Shomei Tomatsu

*Takuma Nakahira: παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1970)
from the [ A Language to Come ]photobook
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature

Untitled (1971)
from the [ Circulation:Date, Place, Events ]series
©Takuma Nakahira

*παρουσίαση/full feature