“… photographers themselves had become built-in to a pseudo-reality reproduction system …”

Photography and photographers themselves had become built-in to a pseudo-reality reproduction system, and even the ‘are, bure boke’ (‘grainy, blurry, and unfocussed’) form that sent shockwaves through the world of photography, had become instantly imitated and consumed as a style of design serving the techniques of advertising.

– Akihito Yasumi, from the introduction to Takuma Nakahira’s “For A Language To Come”