Takuma Nakahira
A leading photographer and critic, Takuma Nakahira had a lasting impact on Japanese art after World War II, from his poetic images to his perceptive writing on art and his work as a founder of —an influential, short-lived magazine of experimental photographic expression. , a long-awaited exhibition organized by the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, examines Nakahira’s wide-ranging career through the perspective of era and Nakahira’s first photobook, (1970), to his engagements with urban space and landscape as an apparatus of political power, providing an expansive context for the photographer’s radical social critique and haunting imagery.
