MASAHISA FUKASE
MASAHISA FUKASE
Published by Atelier EXB in 2018
Book size 20 x 26 cm
412 pages
Language French
Hardcover
Known for The Solitude of Ravens, in which threatening crows in a cloud or alone blacken pages from one end to the other of this mythical book published in 1986, Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, one of the most radical and original of his generation, actually has a protean oeuvre: formal research, overprints, collages, self-portraits, photographs reworked with drawings, black & white prints, polaroids....
Curated by Simon Baker, Director of Photography at Tate Modern, London, and Tomo Kosuga, Director of the Masahisa Fukase Archive, Tokyo, this book will present 26 series of Fukase's work, These include those devoted to his father (Memories of Father), not forgetting his series on cats, including his own, Sasuke, and his famous self-portraits taken in a bathtub, with a waterproof camera (“Bukubuku”) or in duets (“Berobero”) touching tongues, which he would later color. Fukase experienced with everything in the course of his professional life, and his work, which for a long time remained in the shadows, where drama rubs shoulders with irony as much as provocation, deserved a complete work, especially as most of his publications until then had been limited to his native country.
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Known for The Solitude of Ravens, where menacing crows in flocks or solitary ones blacken pages from one end to the other of this legendary book published in 1986, the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, among the most radical and original of his generation, actually has a protean body of work: formal research, superimpositions, collages, self-portraits, photographs reworked in drawing, black & white prints, polaroids…
Its two curators, Simon Baker, director of the photographic department at the Tate Modern in London, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase archives in Tokyo, will be the authors of this comprehensive book that will present 26 series of Fukase's work, notably those devoted to his father (Memories of Father), without forgetting the one on cats, including his own, Sasuke, and his famous self-portraits taken in a bathtub, with a waterproof camera ("Bukubuku") or in duos ("Berobero") who touch their tongues and which they will subsequently color. Fukase will have experienced everything during his professional life and this work, long kept in the shadows, where dramaturgy rubs shoulders with irony and provocation, deserved a complete work, especially since most of his publications were limited until then to his native country.