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

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

Nakahira, Takuma
Abbe, Daniel
Prichard, Franz

Paperback

Series: Aperture Ideas

General PhotographyPhotography History & CriticismPhotographers

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1597115789
ISBN13: 9781597115780
Publisher: Aperture
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

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

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