Provoke | Photography Movement | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
Provoke is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a Japanese magazine of photography and thought published from 1968 to 1970 with participants including Takuma Nakahira, Koji Taki, Yutaka Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Daido Moriyama was born in Ikeda, Osaka, in 1938 into a family whose frequent moves — Tokyo, Hiroshima, Chiba, Shimane, Osaka — gave him what he later described as an instinct for wandering that became foundational to his practice.
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