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

大師介紹：

深瀬昌久是日本攝影中很重要的人物，上世紀六七十年代在日本攝影界相當活躍，參與多次展覽並齣版過多本重要的攝影集，

七十年代跟荒木經惟、細江英公與森山大道一同設立WORKSHOP攝影學校，86年跟森山大道,細江英公,東鬆照明一起的

《Black Sun:The Eyes of Four》在英國展齣，確定瞭他們四人在國際上的知名度跟地位,之後深瀨也陸續發錶瞭父的記憶跟傢

族等重要作品，92年酒後從樓梯上滑落腦挫傷之後終止攝影活動。2012年6月9日因腦齣血逝世。

深瀨昌久的攝影作品集《鴉》被《British Journal of Photography》雜誌評為近25年來 **好的攝影集。

《鴉》從1976年開始一直延續瞭十年纔集結成書，當時??的他正麵臨著人生的低潮，婚姻受挫、工作停滯與自身性格的抑鬱。透過相機，作者將這樣的心情一一保留。

模糊、粗糙的顯影粒子、高反差的對比、看似不精確的局部放大，甚至有些曝光不足或是過度的曝光，卻靈巧地勾勒齣渡鴉僅有的黑白輪廓。

看似粗糙的手法卻是刻意、精準地透露齣深瀬昌久的心境，藉著渡鴉的影像跟隨深瀬昌久孤寂地遊移在城市之間，探究自我內心。

這些烏鴉就像群聚於城市的我們，穿著疏離與防衛的衣裝在各個角落飢餓地覓食著；透過這些影像，我們被深瀬昌久的危險震攝，心中也隨之漂浮著不安與焦躁。

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.