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

Title: Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960/1975

Photographer(s): Variuous photographers

Writer(s): Koji Taki,Takahiko Okada,Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Daido Moriyama

Designer(s): Pierre Hourquet

Publisher(s): Steidl,Göttingen, Germany- LE BAL, Paris, France -Albertina, Wien, Austria- Fotomuseum Winterthur,Winterthur,Switzerland

Year: 2016

Print run: Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Language(s): English

Pages: 680

Size: 19 x 25 cm

Binding: Softcover

Edition:

Print: Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Japan, 1960-1975

ISBN: 9783958291003

The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the postwar era, uniting the country's most contentious examples of protest photography, vanguard fine art, and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 70s in only three issues overall.

Provoke is accordingly treated here as a model synthesis of the complexities and overlapping uses of photography in postwar Japan.  

This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition ever to be held about the magazine and its creators and focuses on its historical context. It covers the preliminary period leading to its first and the aftermath following its last issue. Provoke takes shape as a strongly interpretative explanation of currents in Japanese art and society at a moment of historical collapse and renewal.