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This book brings together all of his work for the very first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts editors, Simon Baker, director of the Maison europ enne de la photographie, Paris, and Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, Tokyo, have assembled 26 series from Fukase's oeuvre, including \u003ci\u003eMemories of Father\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Ravens\u003c\/i\u003e; his portraits of cats; his famous self-portraits taken in a bathtub with a waterproof camera; and many previously unpublished works. Fukase tried his hand at everything, and this essential volume, at more than 400 pages, at last reveals the full breadth of his imagination in an English-language publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49759372673297,"sku":"NGR9782365112024","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51061233254673,"sku":"NIN9782365112024","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/2365112021.jpg?v=1751188965"},{"product_id":"solitude-of-ravens-book-masahisa-fukase-9780938491231","title":"The Solitude of Ravens","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49849557319953,"sku":"CIN0938491237G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0938491237.jpg?v=1750884908"},{"product_id":"sasuke-masahisa-fukase-book-tomo-kosuga-9782365113106","title":"Sasuke - Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tender and joyful portrait of cat companionship from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Ravens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\"\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing 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.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in 1934 on the island of Hokkaido, in the north of Japan, into a family of studio photographers, \u003cb\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Japanese Photography\u003c\/i\u003e to their work; but it was the 1986 book \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Ravens\u003c\/i\u003e that was to make Fukase a revered photographer worldwide. 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