Ravens (Karasu)
Masahisa Fukase

Publication date:May 2017
136 pages
80 colour plates
26.3 cm x 26.3 cm
ISBN 978-1-910164-83-9
Original Afterward by Akira Hasegawa
Accompanying essay by Tomo Kosuga

大师介绍：

深瀬昌久是日本摄影中很重要的人物，上世纪六七十年代在日本摄影界相当活跃，参与多次展览并出版过多本重要的摄影集，

七十年代跟荒木经惟、细江英公与森山大道一同设立WORKSHOP摄影学校，86年跟森山大道,细江英公,东松照明一起的

《Black Sun:The Eyes of Four》在英国展出，确定了他们四人在国际上的知名度跟地位,之后深濑也陆续发表了父的记忆跟家

族等重要作品，92年酒后从楼梯上滑落脑挫伤之后终止摄影活动。2012年6月9日因脑出血逝世。

深濑昌久的摄影作品集《鸦》被《British Journal of Photography》杂志评为近25年来 **好的摄影集。

《鸦》从1976年开始一直延续了十年才集结成书，当时??的他正面临着人生的低潮，婚姻受挫、工作停滞与自身性格的抑郁。透过相机，作者将这样的心情一一保留。

模糊、粗糙的显影粒子、高反差的对比、看似不精确的局部放大，甚至有些曝光不足或是过度的曝光，却灵巧地勾勒出渡鸦仅有的黑白轮廓。

看似粗糙的手法却是刻意、精准地透露出深瀬昌久的心境，借着渡鸦的影像跟随深瀬昌久孤寂地游移在城市之间，探究自我内心。

这些乌鸦就像群聚于城市的我们，穿着疏离与防卫的衣装在各个角落饥饿地觅食着；透过这些影像，我们被深瀬昌久的危险震摄，心中也随之漂浮着不安与焦躁。

Consistently proclaimed as one of the most important photobooks in the history of
the medium,Ravens by Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase was first published
in 1984 and the two subsequent editions have both been short runs and have sold out
immediately. This bilingual facsimile of the first hardback edition is accompanied by
a booklet positioning the body of work in the history of Japanese photography and
Fukase’s oeuvre.
Fukase’s haunting series of work was made between 1975 and 1982 in the aftermath of
a divorce. The coastal landscapes of his hometown Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for
his profoundly dark and impressionistic photographs of crows,which now and then are
interrupted with melancholic girls,a menacing cat,a solitary homeless man and a doleful
woman. The work has been interpreted as a personal and political allegory for post-war
Japan – a brutal yet beautiful mourning of love and loss.
Masahisa Fukase (b. 1934,Hokkaido; d. 2012) graduated from the Nihon University
College of Art’s Photography Department in 1956. Fukase became a freelance
photographer in 1968 after working at the Nippon Design Center and Kawade Shobo
Shinsha Publishers. His major books include Yugi [Homo Ludence](Chuokoronsha,
1971); Yoko (Asahi Sonorama,1978),and Karasu [Ravens](Sokyusha,1986). Countless
solo exhibitions have been dedicaed to Fukase’s work,including a dedicated exhibit of
Ravens at Rencontres d’Arles from July–Sept 2017. His photographs have been included
in group exhibitions at the MoMA,NY; Oxford Museum of Art; Fondation Cartier pour
l’Art Contemporain,Paris; V&A;,London. Fukase also won numerous prizes,including the
2nd Ina Nobuo Award in 1976 for his exhibition “Karasu” and the Special Award at the
8th Higashikawa Photography Awards in 1992. Fukase tragically fell down a set of stairs
in 1992 and suffered a traumatic brain injury from which he never recovered. He passed
away in 2012.