Avant-Garde Imagery: Provoke-era Style

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Japan’s Provoke-era inspired a new genre of photography that broke the traditions of the art form through rough, blurry and out of focus aesthetics in the 1960s. It is also a hybrid of stylized and documentary photography.

Here are some photographs from the Lomography community that recall the signature look of Provoke icons Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu.

Angered grains

Credits: hervinsyah, hey_god, bebopbebop, modern_nmt, pussylove & orange_vespa

Anti-pictorialism: hard-edged portraiture

Credits: kelvin_wx, qrro, oneira1927, rupertengland, kristianday & koduckgirl

Grungy landscape

Credits: oleman, kristianday, goatofrocketh & rewd

Blurry and out of focus

Credits: miksher, adi_totp, 35mmto120 & aton

City life on the grime

Credits: henrythewise, nickpage, ohlordy, pierrickmorin & cornborn

Sensual apathy

Credits: aka_papu, why-yu & tsnsak

2016-05-01 #lifestyle #black-and-white #b-w #black-and-white-photography #japanese-photography #provoke-era #provoke-photography

2 Comments

  1. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    And there's this great exposition at the Albertina in Vienna about "Provoke" :)

  2. hervinsyah
    hervinsyah ·

    The style cathegory at this article made me realize that this "provoke" genre is about facing and accepting reality. Suddenly tears are streaming down in my eyes #Shit haha sorry I don't know what happen with myself after all night long haven't slept watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix6ey20pTbI

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