Provoke
プロヴォーク / 1968–1970 / Style / Photography Movements
The magazine Provoke called itself provocative materials for thought. Working through are-bure-boke, coarse grain and blur and lost focus, it stripped photography of tidy meaning and gave seeing back its rawness.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Rough grain (are)
- Blur and defocus affirmed
- High-contrast black
- Fragmentary framing
Best used for
- Photobooks and magazine spreads on the city and the body that permit roughness
- Music or clothing campaigns aimed against polished advertising
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Type struck over the image and cropped, explanatory captions removed
- Composition
- Full-bleed spreads with the image cut straight through the gutter
- Material
- Pushed grain and crushed black, tone thrown away in exposure and development
- Caution
- Adding blur and grain afterward as an effect leaves pictures that are merely rough, because nothing changed in how they were taken.
- Further study
- Takuma Nakahira / Daido Moriyama's Farewell Photography / Koji Taki's theory
Related entries
- Japanese Realism Photography (リアリズム写真運動)Same Photography Movements lineage.Compare Provoke and Japanese Realism Photography
- Angura Poster (アングラ演劇ポスター)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Provoke and Angura Poster
Often confused with
More from Photography Movements
Continue through styles in the same Photography Movements family, prioritised by shared effects.
- New Topographics (ニュー・トポグラフィックス)Shared effects: Calm / Rebellion.
- New Color Photography (ニューカラー)Shared effects: Calm / Rebellion.
- New Vision Photography (ニュー・ヴィジョン写真)Shared effects: Exhilaration.
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