Masahisa Fukase’s Landmark Photo Book To Get Republished This Year – Feature Shoot

Some have written that Fukase took so many photographs of his wife, Yoko, that he bordered on obsessive (she described their life together as “suffocating dullness interspersed by violent and near suicidal flashes of excitement”). Heartbroken when she divorced him in 1976, Fukase turned his lens/obsession to ravens — birds who, like crows, represent ominousness and bleak loneliness in Japan just as they do in the US — and published the works in a 1986 photobook called Karasu, also known as The Solitude of Ravens.