Masahisa Fukase
Hibi
Published by MACK, 2016
Book size 16 x 26 x 2.5cm
Pages 240 pages
Hardcover
Language English
ISBN 9781910164457
Good condition
Hibi literally includes a series of street photographs by renowned Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Each of the black and white images painstakingly attends to the road's surface – the worn road-markings, the fading lines and arrows eroded by the city's innumerable inhabitants, a web of fissures in the asphalt. In 1992, Fukase printed and painted the works for a solo exhibition, 'Private Scenes '92', held at Nikon Salon in Tokyo. He overlaid a set of bromide prints with fluid drawings in brightly colored inks and on every image the physical presence of the artist is traced, a shadow-presence which seems to offer a reading, an interpretation but one that can never be fully resolved.
― publisher statement
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Hibi is literally a series of street photographs by the renowned Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Each of the black-and-white images painstakingly attends to the road surface—the worn road markings, the faded lines and arrows eroded by the city’s countless inhabitants, a network of cracks in the asphalt. In 1992, Fukase printed and painted the works for a solo exhibition, ‘Private Scenes’ 92’, held at the Nikon Salon in Tokyo. He superimposed a set of bromide prints with fluid drawings in brightly colored inks, and over each image the artist’s physical presence is traced, a shadowy presence that seems to offer a reading, an interpretation but can never be fully resolved.
- publisher's statement