3. Takuma Nakahira. For a Language to Come in The Japanese Box : Facsimile Reprint of Six Rare Photographic Publications of the Provoke Era. Paris: Edition 7L; Göttingen: distributed by Steidl Publishers, 2001, [p.126-127].
The relationship between words and images was so important to Takuma Nakahira that he titled his 1970 photobook For a Language to Come. The photos are a collection of alienated landscapes, light and dark bure, boke images of fire and the sea. Nakahira's success was his ability to photograph atmosphere. Unlike Provoke and most contemporaneous photobooks, the book reads right to left in traditional Japanese style. As bure, boke photography became popular, Nakahira abandoned it and embraced a mantra of pure illustration: "A thing is a thing, like an encyclopedia." His intent had been to create a rejection of established stereotypes, not a style.

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