1. Yutaka Takanashi. Toshi-e. Tokyo: Takanashi Yutaka; Hatsubaimoto Izara Shobō, 1974; plate 6, paperback.
Yutaka Takanashi was already an established photographer when he joined Provoke. He joined the group partly because of Nakahira's charismatic persuasion and partly because, as he said, "Photography was too narrational for me, I was trying to make my own work." Takanashi's job as a photographer at the Nippon Design Center allowed him to afford to self-publish Toshi-e (Towards the City) in 1974. The book is comprised of two volumes. The large (hardback) Toshi-e features images of landscapes with no location, only the imminence of the city spreading into the country, and a striking silver disk on the cover. The small (paperback) Tokyojin (People of Tokyo) is printed on newsprint. In opposition to the desolate images of the expanse of Westernization, Seibu Department Store, Toshima-Ku, 25 April, depicts a fashionable woman coolly ignoring some teenage boys as she goes shopping.

"Rough, Blurred, and Out Of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Post-War Japanese Photography," Case 5, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, January 2-February 27, 2012