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communicants:

Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994)

koholint:

kozo murashita cover art by tamotsu murakami

(via eachmiyoko)

(Source: mangahakuran)

hongrie:

look after me, nasty magazine

pasticciaccio:

Sans Soleil, Chris Marker (1983)

girlsingreenfields:

Wu Xiao Ke photographed by Otsuka Sansuzu.

trefoiled:

Yukimasa Okumura, The Studio, Tokyo for Danzindan-Pojidon by Inoyama Land (Experimental, Ambient, 1983).

puntoslunares:

Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, 1997)

kafxa:

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets / Shuji Terayama, 1971

65g:

Oniisama e… - 32

(Source: tomtomdidymus)

shihlun:

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

(2016)

Cover Image:

Shomei Tomatsu, Takuma Nakahira, Editor, 1964.

東松照明, 「編集者 中平卓馬」

The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke, founded in 1968, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country’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 country’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 members-critic Koji Taki, poet Takahiko Okada, photographers Takuma Nakahira, Yakata Takanashi and Daido Moriyama-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.

(Source: facebook.com)

secretcinema1:

Untitled, from series Chiisai Denki (Small Biography), 1974-85, Shoji Ueda

filmcat:

A Silent Day (Takashi Ito, 2002)