A towering figure in Japanese photographic culture starting in the second half of the 1960s, Takuma Nakahira (1938–2015) produced a highly significant body of work. Although he was known mainly for his contribution to the legendary magazine Provoke (1968–69), his work seems to have been quite eclipsed by that of his contemporary, Daido Moriyama (1938–). Both Moriyama’s and Nakahira’s images often evince the are-bure-boke (grainy, blurry, out of focus) photographic aesthetic.