Lot 262: MASAHISA FUKASE

MASAHISA FUKASE

Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986.

Square quarto (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, original glassine dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (dust-jacket chipped and creased, as often when found). Fukase's signature in paint pen on the front blank. Provenance: Japanese bookseller's ticket tipped on the inside flap.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and with the rare glassine dust-jacket. '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'. The Photobook, vol. I, p.306.

No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.

No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.