Takuma Nakahira 1000 by Takuma Nakahira
Publisher : 1000 Bunko; Second Edition (April 11, 2017
Edited: Gento Matsumoto
Language : English and Japanese.
Paperback : 1024 pages, Size 4.13 x 5.83 x 2.56 inches
ISBN-10 : 4907994036
ISBN-13 : 978-4907994037
During preparations for Takuma Nakahira’s 2003 exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art (“Degree Zero - Yokohama”), a significant collection of previously unknown black-and-white prints by the artist was discovered. These photographs, some of which were featured in the exhibition, were taken in a Yokohama suburb near Nakahira’s home, likely between 1978 and the late 1980s. Every day during this period, Nakahira would rise at sunrise, take a walk or ride his bicycle around his neighborhood, photograph what he encountered, and then develop the prints himself.
From this extensive collection, a selection of photos featuring cars was compiled into a massive photobook. By focusing on these images rather than his words, the book offers an attempt to decipher and understand one of the world’s most enigmatic photographers and critics.
The 1000 photos in Takuma Nakahira 1000 were chosen from this collection, all centered around cars and vehicles, captured in a frantic, almost accidental manner.
What was it that drew Nakahira to shoot these vehicles over and over?
“I wonder, what did the eyes behind the shutter see? Cars? My guess is that the last thing Takuma Nakahira meant to be doing was photographing cars. Because if he was photographing cars, then those really cannot be anything but car photos.
When I look through the pages of this book, the things I see photographed here refuse words, refuse lyricism, refuse relationships.”
— From Junko Gosho’s essay “Imminent Collapse, Imploding Eyes, Recollection”
Publisher : 1000 Bunko; Second Edition (April 11, 2017
Edited: Gento Matsumoto
Language : English and Japanese.
Paperback : 1024 pages, Size 4.13 x 5.83 x 2.56 inches
ISBN-10 : 4907994036
ISBN-13 : 978-4907994037
During preparations for Takuma Nakahira’s 2003 exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art (“Degree Zero - Yokohama”), a significant collection of previously unknown black-and-white prints by the artist was discovered. These photographs, some of which were featured in the exhibition, were taken in a Yokohama suburb near Nakahira’s home, likely between 1978 and the late 1980s. Every day during this period, Nakahira would rise at sunrise, take a walk or ride his bicycle around his neighborhood, photograph what he encountered, and then develop the prints himself.
From this extensive collection, a selection of photos featuring cars was compiled into a massive photobook. By focusing on these images rather than his words, the book offers an attempt to decipher and understand one of the world’s most enigmatic photographers and critics.
The 1000 photos in Takuma Nakahira 1000 were chosen from this collection, all centered around cars and vehicles, captured in a frantic, almost accidental manner.
What was it that drew Nakahira to shoot these vehicles over and over?
“I wonder, what did the eyes behind the shutter see? Cars? My guess is that the last thing Takuma Nakahira meant to be doing was photographing cars. Because if he was photographing cars, then those really cannot be anything but car photos.
When I look through the pages of this book, the things I see photographed here refuse words, refuse lyricism, refuse relationships.”
— From Junko Gosho’s essay “Imminent Collapse, Imploding Eyes, Recollection”
Publisher : 1000 Bunko; Second Edition (April 11, 2017
Edited: Gento Matsumoto
Language : English and Japanese.
Paperback : 1024 pages, Size 4.13 x 5.83 x 2.56 inches
ISBN-10 : 4907994036
ISBN-13 : 978-4907994037
During preparations for Takuma Nakahira’s 2003 exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art (“Degree Zero - Yokohama”), a significant collection of previously unknown black-and-white prints by the artist was discovered. These photographs, some of which were featured in the exhibition, were taken in a Yokohama suburb near Nakahira’s home, likely between 1978 and the late 1980s. Every day during this period, Nakahira would rise at sunrise, take a walk or ride his bicycle around his neighborhood, photograph what he encountered, and then develop the prints himself.
From this extensive collection, a selection of photos featuring cars was compiled into a massive photobook. By focusing on these images rather than his words, the book offers an attempt to decipher and understand one of the world’s most enigmatic photographers and critics.
The 1000 photos in Takuma Nakahira 1000 were chosen from this collection, all centered around cars and vehicles, captured in a frantic, almost accidental manner.
What was it that drew Nakahira to shoot these vehicles over and over?
“I wonder, what did the eyes behind the shutter see? Cars? My guess is that the last thing Takuma Nakahira meant to be doing was photographing cars. Because if he was photographing cars, then those really cannot be anything but car photos.
When I look through the pages of this book, the things I see photographed here refuse words, refuse lyricism, refuse relationships.”
— From Junko Gosho’s essay “Imminent Collapse, Imploding Eyes, Recollection”
