Provoke: Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Provoke (プロヴォーク) was an experimental, small-press Japanese photography magazine, first published on 1 November 1968 as a “dojin-shi” — a self-published, independently circulated magazine. Founded by art critic Kōji Taki, photographers Takuma Nakahira and Yutaka Takanashi, and poet Takahiko Okada, it carried the subtitle "Provocative Materials for Thought."

Their aim was to break with documentary conventions, embracing an anti-aesthetic in which photography expressed the world not as seen, but as felt. Photographer Daido Moriyama joined from the second issue. Three issues were published in total — each in an edition of only 1000 copies — before the group concluded with the overview publication “First, Abandon the World of Pseudo-Certainty”.