RETURNED $44.5 At the Limits of the Gaze

Updated August 7, 2026

Lot number	321
Auction	#6 Calgary Amazon Returns/Overstock Wednesday, Aug 12
Date	August 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM PDT
Auction house	Rightside Auctions Calgary
Location	Enumclaw, Washington

The first English-language collection of Takuma Nakahira’s influential writings on photography. At the Limits of the Gazecollects the writings of photographer and critic Takuma Nakahira in English for the first time. A crucial figure within the history of Japanese photography, Nakahira is best known outside of Japan as a founding member ofProvoke, the experimental magazine of photographs, essays, and poetry, first published in 1968, and for his important photobookFor a Language to Come(1970). Throughout a decades-long career, Nakahira raised incisive questions about visual culture and politics in both his photography and his writing. As part of a dynamic moment of artistic and political experimentation in Tokyo, he wrote on a range of topics hardly limited to photography: art, film, journalism, literature, politics, television, and more. Nakahira’s essays brim with urgency, relentlessly interrogating photography’s relationship to power, the connection between language and images, and the gaze. As editors and translators Daniel Abbe and Franz Prichard write, Nakahira’s essays “both suggest doubt about, and possibilities for, a photographically mediated reckoning with the world.” RG

RETURNED $44.5 At the Limits of the Gaze

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