Provoke

プロヴォーク / 1968–1970 / Style / Photography Movements

The manifesto of the magazine Provoke: provocative materials for thought. Are-bure-boke — grain, blur and out-of-focus as method — stripped photography of tidy meaning to recover the rawness of seeing.

Rough grain (are) / Blur and defocus affirmed / High-contrast black / Fragmentary framing

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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Takuma Nakahira / Daido Moriyama's Farewell Photography / Koji Taki's theory

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