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A new biopic chronicles the complex life and work of Japan’s most celebrated and iconic photographer Masahisa Fukase.
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Even as a camera gives you considerable power — you literally get to shape how other people will be seen, it is very difficult for many photographers to be mindful of it, in particular when being confronted with the power a father figure seems to exert (even if in reality that power might have now waned if not outright disappeared).
For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in Bifuka, a small provincial town in the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido. In…
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For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in Bifuka, a small provincial town in the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido. In August 1971, at the age of 35, Masahisa Fukase returned home from Tokyo, where he had moved in the 1950s. He realised that the Fukase Photographic Studio, which his younger brother managed, combined with the growing family members, constituted the perfect subject for a series of portraits.
Sasuke, from the series Game, 1983. Bukubuku, 1991. For more than two decades, the work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase has been largely inaccessible. Following his death in 2012, the…
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For more than two decades, the work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase has been largely inaccessible. Following his death in 2012, the archives were gradually disclosed, revealing a trove of wonders never seen before. Among the most radical artists of his time, Fukase is now being celebrated with Private Scenes, a large-scale retrospective of original prints that will be on view at Foam, Amsterdam, from September 7 – December 12, 2018. Editions Xavier Barral will publish the accompanying catalogue, to be released on October 23.
Any artist with a muse understands this person’s importance in their creative process. And if that muse is your wife, for example, the connection becomes all the more complex. But…
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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.
Brooding and shatteringly lonely, the Japanese photographer’s series on ravens has been hailed as masterpiece of mourning
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/24/masahisa-fukase-ravens-photobook
Fukase’s images are grainy, dark and impressionistic. Often, he magnifies his negatives or overexposes them, aiming all the time for mood over technical refinement. He photographs flocks from a distance, and single birds that appear like black silhouettes against grey, wintry skies. They are captured in flight, blurred and ominous, and at rest, perching on telegraph wires, trees, fences and chimneys. Fusake photographs them alive and dead, and maps their shadows in harsh sunlight and their tracks in the snow.