Degree Zero - Yokohama

by Takuma Nakahira

Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Nakahara Takuma ten : Genten fukki - Yokohama" held at Yokohama Museum of Art, Oct. 4- Dec. 7, 2003. The retrospective exhibition included Nakahira's representative works from his early days as a photographer through the present day. A total of 800 photographs, prints and other records from his photobooks and from periodicals were assembled to portray all aspects of the artists's work. 189 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Softcover. 69 color plates and 41 plates in b/w duotone. Artist's comments and list of works in English.

Tankobon Hardcover

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Takuma Nakahira was a Japanese photographer and photography critic.

While working as an editor at the art magazine Today's Focus (Gendai no me), Nakahira published his work under the name of Aki Yuzuki. Up through the publication of the phonebook For a Language to Come (Kitarubeki kotoba no tame ni) in 1970, Nakahira had been well versed in a style in the vein of Daido Moriyama's Are, bure, boke (rough, blurred, and out of focus). In 1973, he published Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary (Naze, shokubutsu zukan ka), shifting away from the style of Are, bure, boke and instead moving towards a type of catalog photography stripped of the sentimentality of handheld, or a photography resembling the illustrations of reference books.