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Takuma Nakahira has long been regarded an icon of Japanese photography. “Provoke” created a new photographic language to imagery, discourses and politics. After four decades, “Provoke” became the most major context for research Japanese avant-garde. But after 1970, Nakahira underwent a decisive change to refine his thinking of photography. His process-based installation “Circulation: Date, Place, Events” for the 1971 Paris Biennale was one among them. During a week, Nakahira lingered and took the pictrures on the streets of Paris every day; every evening the artist developed the films and …