Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan

Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960–1975

The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke, founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the countryâ‚¬s finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues overall. The magazine's goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the countryâ‚¬s first large-scale student protests. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively "poor" materials. The writings and images by Provoke's membersâ‚¬â€¢critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyamaâ‚¬â€¢were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life. Provoke accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held on the magazine and its creators. Illuminating the various uses of photography in Japan at the time, the catalogue focuses on selected projects undertaken between 1960 and 1975 that offer a strongly interpretative account of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.
Country USA
Brand Steidl
Manufacturer Steidl
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-06-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783958291003

Country	USA
Brand	Steidl
Manufacturer	Steidl
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9783958291003

Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960–1975

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