Zoom

Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke

Name: Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke
Brand: Editions Xavier Barral
SKU: 9782365113106
Price: 39.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$39.99 $55.00

Discount: $15.01 (28%)

Hurry Up! Only 14 Left in Stock!

Out of stock >

Guarantee safe & Secure checkout

Availability: Only few left!

Contributors:

Masahisa Fukase (Photographer), Tomo Kosuga (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Publisher:

Editions Xavier Barral

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Photography, Art

Book Subcategory:

Individual Photographers, Subjects & Themes, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions

Book Topic:

Monographs, Plants & Animals, Group Shows

Shipping & Return +

The product is eligible for a complimentary return within 30 days from the date of purchase. Furthermore, individual items are shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order.

Rating and Reviews +

Specifications +

Release Date:

2021-09-07

ISBN 13:

9782365113106

Weight:

2 lbs

Size:

10.40 x 7.50 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

192

Mint Condition +

product description

Description

A tender and joyful portrait of cat companionship from the author of The Solitude of Ravens

In 1977, photographer Masahisa Fukase turned his lens toward a new companion: his cat, Sasuke. "That year I took a lot of pictures crawling on my stomach to be at eye level with a cat and, in a way, that made me a cat. It was a job full of joy, taking these photos playing with what I liked, in accordance with the changes of nature." A year later, he acquired a second cat, named Momoe. "I didn't want to photograph the most beautiful cats in the world but rather capture their charm in my lens, while reflecting me in their pupils," he wrote of these images. "You could rightly say that this collection is actually a 'self-portrait' for which I took the form of Sasuke and Momoe."
Featuring tipped-on cover images, this gorgeously made book is arranged in four chapters, organized around the chronology of Fukase's life with his cats. As so often in his work, these tender images also express the photographer's subjectivity and his connection to his subject.
Born in 1934 on the island of Hokkaido, in the north of Japan, into a family of studio photographers, Masahisa Fukase was meant to take over the family business, but instead he launched a career as a freelance reporter in the late 1960s. In 1971 he published his first photography book, dedicated to his family. In 1974, he cofounded the Workshop Photography School with Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Noriaki Yokosuka, Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama. That same year, MoMA dedicated a milestone exhibition New Japanese Photography to their work; but it was the 1986 book The Solitude of Ravens that was to make Fukase a revered photographer worldwide. After a fall in 1992, Fukase went into a coma at the age of 58 and was kept on life support until his death in 2012.

Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke

Description

Recently Viewed Products

Recently viewed products

Secure Payment

Online Offers

Quick Refunds

Curated Items