Research Catalog

Title

Masahisa Fukase / introduction by Simon Baker, texts by Tomo Kosuga.

Author

Fukase, Masahisa, 1934-2012

Publication

• Paris, France : Editions Xavier Barral, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kosuga, Tomo
• Baker, Simon, 1972-

Description

413 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

"Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase is among the most radical and original of his generation, famous for "The Solitude of Ravens", in which these birds of doom, in flocks or alone, blacken the pages cover to cover of his legendary book released in 1986. He also has a lesser-known, multifaceted corpus: formal research, superimposition, collages, self-portraits, photographs reworked as sketches, black-and-white prints, Polaroids, and more. This monograph brings together for the very first time all of his artistic work presented over 26 series, including the ones dedicated to his father (Memories of Father); without forgetting his series on cats, including his own cat, Sasuke; and his famous self-portraits taken in a bathtub, with a waterproof camera ('Bukubuku') or in pairs ('Berobero') touching tongues which he later coloured. Essays by Simon Baker, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, shed light on Fukase's multifaceted oeuvre in which dramaturgy is tinged as much with irony as with provocation."--from the publisher.

Subject

• Fukase, Masahisa, 1934-2012
• 1900-1999
• Photography, Artistic
• Photography
• Photographers
• Photography, Artistic > 20th century
• Photography > Japan > 20th century
• Photographers > Japan > 20th century
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Masahisa Fukase: an introduction / Simon Baker -- Looking for the personal and the playful: forty years of Masahisa Fukase / Tomo Kosuga -- Hokkaido -- Tokyo 1952-1954 -- Kill the pig -- Color approach -- Matsubara & Shinjuki -- A play -- Family, Part 1 -- Black box -- Ravens 1976 -- Sasuke -- Ravens 1979 -- Ravens: noctambulant flight -- Ravens: Tokyo episode -- Walking eyes 1 -- Walking eyes 2 -- A game -- Chromophotography scenes -- Raven scenes -- Family, Part 2 -- Memories of Father -- Private scenes -- Hibi -- Berobero -- Bukubuku -- Ravens 1992 -- Automatism -- Bringing to light / Tomo Kosuga -- Timeline.

Call Number

JQF 21-191

ISBN

• 9782365112024
• 2365112021

OCLC

1059551103

Author

Fukase, Masahisa, 1934-2012, photographer.

Title

Masahisa Fukase / introduction by Simon Baker, texts by Tomo Kosuga.

Publisher

Paris, France : Editions Xavier Barral, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Kosuga, Tomo, contributor.

Baker, Simon, 1972- writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-191