This catalogue is published in conjunction with 'Degree Zero - Yokohama', Nakahira Takuma's solo exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art from October to December 2003 and at the Naha Civic Gallery from April to May 2004.

'Nakahira Takuma was born in 1938 in Tokyo and is a resident of Kohoku Ward, Yokohama. He played a large part in the transition of still photography to an expressive art form that began in the second half of the 1960s. Today he continues to significantly influence the medium as a means of expressing the modern-day phenomena.

In his early days, Nakahira blurred images by using coarse grained printing and out-of-focus techniques to break away from convention. Since then, however, he has pursued "photography that would justify its being by portraying a thing exactly as a thing," such as pictorial book-like images.

The exhibition shows mainly his representative works from his early days to the present. A total of 800 photographs, prints and other records from his photo albums and periodicals have been assembled for the first full-scale retrospective in an attempt to portray all aspects of the author's work.' - quoted from the Yokohama Museum of Art website

Artist's statement, artist biography and list of works included.