Takuma Nakahira - Adieu A X - 1989

Adieu A X

Takuma Nakahira
Kawade Shobo Shinsha /1989/Japanese/215*298*13

Adieu A X (First Edition)” is a collection of photographs by internationally popular photographer Takuma Nakahira, who in 1977 fell ill with acute alcohol intoxication and was discharged from the hospital with memory and speech impairments. In the 1960s, Nakahira was shocked by the works of William Klein, questioned the nudes and the strong self-consciousness of photographers of the time, and continued to take “blur and blur” photographs as if in opposition to these works. As a result, he felt that the subjects were too anonymous and the totality of his work had lost the essence of photography. In the “Self-Transformation of Photography” section at the end of the book, he states that he “returned to being a simple photographer, deconstructed his self-consciousness, and created a new consciousness for himself. Following “New Gaze (1983),” this is a group of works from the middle period of the career of the reborn photographer Takuma Nakahira. Adieu a X” means ‘Adieu X’ as a good-bye to his past photographs and various people.