Daido Moriyama: Provoke: Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes (B condition, £60.00 reduced price)

Provoke was first published in November 1968 as a dojin-shi, or self-published magazine. It was originally conceived by art critic Koji Taki (1928-2011) and photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015), with poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997) and photographer Yutaka Takanashi as dojin members. The subtitle for the magazine was “Provocative Materials for Thought”, and each issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems. After releasing the second and third issue with Daido Moriyama as a subsequent member, the group broke up with their last publication First, Abandon the World of Pseudo-Certainty - an overview edition of the three issues. Provoke’s grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus photographs were initially ridiculed as are-bure-boke and stirred a great deal of controversy, yet it had created a strong impact inside and outside of the photography world during that time. However, today, Provoke has become an extremely rare book and very few people have seen the original.

Published as part of The Japanese Box: Facsimile Reprint of Six Rare Photographic Publications of the Provoke Era*, Provoke's facsimile reprint has its photographic images cropped approximately 3 mm from the edges for bookbinding purposes. The reprint also does not include texts by Takahiko Okada due to copyright reasons. Provoke Complete Reprint by NITESHA maintains the original size of the images and includes all original texts, along with the ones by Takahiko Okada. In addition, the volumes will be accompanied by complete English and Chinese translations of the original Japanese texts as a booklet.

Please note, these are "B" condition copies with slight marks on some of the covers and are sold at the reduced price of £60.00, down from £75.00. These copies are the last of this 2023 printing we will receive.

Title: Provoke - Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes 
Publisher: Nitesha, 2018, 2023 3rd printing
Author: Koji Tak, Takahiko Okada
Photographer: Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanshi, Daido Moriyama
Format:  4 paperback volumes
Size: Vol.1: 21 × 21 cm, 68 pages / Vol.2: 24.2 × W18 cm, 109 pages / Vol.3: H24 ×  W18.4 cm, 110 pages
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