Nakahira Takuma
from Circulation: Date, Place, Events

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Artist Nakahira TakumaJapanese, 1938–2015

CultureJapanese

Titles

from Circulation: Date, Place, Events

Date1971, printed 2012

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 13 3/4 × 19 in. (34.9 × 48.3 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Frame (outer) (ANW EXHIBITION FRAME): 20 5/8 × 26 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (52.4 × 67.6 × 4.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern, Peter Lotz, and Photo Forum 2013

Object number2014.205

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAt the 1971 Paris Biennale, Takuma Nakahira offered his own novel response to the landscape that he previously had confronted in For a Language to Come, one that would characterize his criticism and photography thereafter. Nakahira’s process-based installation for the biennale, titled Circulation: Date, Place, Events, mounted an assault on the myriad forms of mediation that inundate the urban experience. For this installation, Nakahira photographed, printed, and displayed a vast number of images documenting his daily experiences in Paris, adding more each day and overflowing the allotted exhibition space. Circulation conveyed the pathways of circulation that he encountered in Paris: streets, traffic, print media, television screens, art installations, signs, teletype news feeds, subways, and people. As the photographic remnant of circulating things, bodies, and information, the all-encompassing installation collapsed the boundary between spectacle and spectator.
ProvenanceOsiris Co., Ltd. and the artist, through Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY, 2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2013
Exhibition History“Photo Forum 2013,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 12, 2013–January 5, 2014.

“For A New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 Japan,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 8–July 12, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on verso lower center: # C-195 / 1/15

Printed on verso lower right: [Japanese characters] Takuma Nakahira / Print certified by Osiris

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