Nakahira was born in Japan in 1938 and has become a widely respected photographer and photography critic. He has published over 8 books of photos, but the one that caught my eye was called For a Language to Come (published in 1970). He uses a peculiar and mesmerizing technique where nothing is quite in focus and almost everything is blurred to varying degrees; this technique, borrowed from Daido Moriyama, is called "are, bure, boke" (rough, blurred, out of focus). It creates a fascinating visual, almost surreal, as if to suggest that what is being seen is actually a dream, or part of a dream.
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