{"title":"Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"100\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDarwin returns to \u003cstrong data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"100\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e where autobiography corrodes into evidence. The work folds inward: marriage, exile, birds, repetition as damage. We bias toward books made after collapse, sequences where authorship leaks. Fukase rhymes here with Araki’s compulsions and Scandinavian diarists, but darker—circulation stalled, archive bruised. Images behave like afterimages, insisting on return rather than narrative. Time is looped, authorship injured, intimacy staged against disappearance itself again.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ravens-masahisa-fukase-mack-2017-edition","title":"Ravens — Masahisa Fukase, MACK 2017 Edition","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"1214\" data-start=\"112\"\u003eFew photobooks are as mythic, obsessive, or terminal as Masahisa Fukase’s \u003cem data-end=\"194\" data-start=\"186\"\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 1986 and reissued here by MACK with a newly commissioned essay by Tomo Kosuga, this bilingual edition restores the intensity and context of a body of work long considered among the most important in photographic history. Shot between 1975 and 1986 in the wake of Fukase’s divorce, \u003cem data-end=\"504\" data-start=\"496\"\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds across the coastal darkness of Hokkaido, where flocks of crows—blurred, glinting, feral—become allegories of loss, madness, and solitary vision. It began, reportedly, with a mournful train ride. What followed was not just a document of existential isolation but a collapse of the boundary between author and subject: Fukase became the raven, as Kosuga writes, “frozen by his camera and immortalized on the cover of his most famous book.” The 2017 edition re-situates the work inside Fukase’s biography—his collapse in 1992, his two-decade coma, and his posthumous canonisation—while reproducing the images with a quiet, undiminished violence. This is not just a photobook; it is an afterlife in pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1620\" data-start=\"1216\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1235\" data-start=\"1216\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"1238\" data-start=\"1235\"\u003eTitle: Ravens\u003cbr data-end=\"1254\" data-start=\"1251\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Masahisa Fukase\u003cbr data-end=\"1289\" data-start=\"1286\"\u003eDate: Originally 1986, this edition 2017\u003cbr data-is-only-node=\"\" data-end=\"1332\" data-start=\"1329\"\u003eEdition: MACK facsimile with new material\u003cbr data-end=\"1376\" data-start=\"1373\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-end=\"1414\" data-start=\"1411\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with slipcase\u003cbr data-end=\"1460\" data-start=\"1457\"\u003eDimensions (cm): Approx. 24 × 26\u003cbr data-end=\"1495\" data-start=\"1492\"\u003eLanguage: English, Japanese\u003cbr data-end=\"1525\" data-start=\"1522\"\u003ePages: [Please confirm]\u003cbr data-end=\"1551\" data-start=\"1548\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: MACK\u003cbr data-end=\"1578\" data-start=\"1575\"\u003eISBN: 978-1-910164-83-9\u003cbr data-end=\"1604\" data-start=\"1601\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52605004284242,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_0e786b1e-5772-46e0-b98d-c504b84f069a.jpg?v=1769893107"},{"product_id":"masahisa-fukase-by-tomo-kosuga-ed-french-edition-2018","title":"Masahisa Fukase by Tomo Kosuga (ed.) — French edition, ATELIER EXB 2018","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"536\"\u003eThis major monograph, published by Éditions Xavier Barral in 2018, is the first comprehensive volume to encompass the full spectrum of Masahisa Fukase’s radical and shape-shifting oeuvre. Released on the occasion of the FOAM retrospective in Amsterdam, following Arles 2017, the book maps out the Japanese photographer’s deeply personal and experimental trajectory beyond his iconic \u003cem data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"535\"\u003eSolitude of Ravens\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"1126\"\u003eStructured around 26 photographic series, it reveals the many lives of Fukase’s practice—from stark black-and-white prints to polaroids, from grotesque and intimate self-portraits to drawn-over photographs and theatrical stagings. Works such as \u003cem data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"803\"\u003eMemories of Father\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"805\" data-end=\"815\"\u003eBukubuku\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-start=\"821\" data-end=\"831\"\u003eBerobero\u003c\/em\u003e stand alongside the obsessive cat studies of Sasuke, blurring lines between mourning, humor, and performance. With texts by Simon Baker and Tomo Kosuga, this richly illustrated volume is a landmark in Japanese photographic history—documenting a lifetime of solitude, eroticism, and formal risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1541\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1146\"\u003eTitle: Masahisa Fukase\u003cbr data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1171\"\u003eEditor \/ Author: Tomo Kosuga\u003cbr data-start=\"1199\" data-end=\"1202\"\u003eContributors: Simon Baker (Foreword), Anne Testut \u0026amp; Corinne Atlan (Translators)\u003cbr data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1284\"\u003eDate: 4 October 2018\u003cbr data-start=\"1304\" data-end=\"1307\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1345\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover, Illustrated\u003cbr data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1390\"\u003eDimensions (cm): Approx. 21 × 29\u003cbr data-start=\"1422\" data-end=\"1425\"\u003eLanguage: French\u003cbr data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1444\"\u003ePages: 416\u003cbr data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1457\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Éditions Xavier Barral\u003cbr data-start=\"1499\" data-end=\"1502\"\u003eISBN: 978-2365111775\u003cbr data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1525\"\u003eCondition: NEW\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52660446593362,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_copy_a1e9044a-10e2-4508-8343-dabacab95db3.jpg?v=1770578185"},{"product_id":"homo-ludens-masahisa-fukase-akaaka-2025","title":"HOMO LUDENS, Masahisa Fukase, AKAAKA, 2025","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"608\"\u003eOne of the key works for understanding Masahisa Fukase before \u003cem data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"115\"\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e. First published in 1971, this six-part sequence moves between intimacy, desire, loss, performance and mortality, tracing the emotional terrain that would define his later practice. Images of Yoko Wanibe, underground Shinjuku life, family relationships and personal memories unfold with striking psychological intensity. 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