The Photobook Show
“Provoke”: Daido Moriyama and Beyond
episode 24
The Japanese photo magazine Provoke lasted for only four issues, yet it changed the trajectory of Japanese photography. It’s short run launched the career of Daidō Moriyama, who joined the editors Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira for the second issue, and sparked a friendship between Nakahira and Moriyama that would last more than 40 years.
On the occasion of the publication of the new book Quartet — which brings together Moriyama’s first four, hugely influential books — we look back at Japan in the tumultuous times of the 60s and 70s and at some of the photobooks that defined this era and how it continues to influence artists today.
Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
Stefan teaches the poetics of space, nighttime photography, and much more (including presenting The Photobook Show) for StrudelmediaLive.
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