Masahisa Fukase
Masahisa Fukase
Published by Atelier EXB in 2018
Size: 20 x 26 cm
412 Pages
Languages: French
Hardcover
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 into drawings, black & white prints, polaroids...
Its two curators, Simon Baker, director of the photography 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 pairs ("Berobero") touching their tongues and which they would later color. Fukase will have experienced everything during his professional life and this work, long kept in the shadows, where dramaturgy rubs shoulders with irony as much as provocation, deserved a complete work, especially since most of his publications were previously limited to his native country.