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
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