Lot 150: Masahisa Fukase (1934 - )

Masahisa Fukase (1934 - ) Karasu [Ravens], 1986 Photobook, 1st edition, 62 black and white photographs, Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986, original black cloth, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label, complete with the fragile glassine jacket 25.7 x 25.7cm.

25.7 x 25.7cm.

‘The post-provoke masterpiece of Japanese photobooks...a technical as well as an aesthetic tour-de-force...its strength is that it works on so many levels — graphically, descriptively, technically, metaphorically. The imagery is beautiful, surprising, haunting, but ultimately it is Fukase’s masterly handling of the narrative and rhythm that makes it so memorable.1 1. Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History Volume 1, (London, New York, 2004), p. 306