Provoke is the title of the magazine founded in 1968 by a group of Japanese photographers, graphic designers, poets, critics, and political activists. Moriyamas photography is indeed provocative, both for the form it takes (dirty, blurry, overexposed, or scratched) and for its content. The viewers experience of the photowhether it captures a place, a person, a situation, or an atmosphereis the central thrust in his work, which vividly and directly conveys the artists emotions.