{"product_id":"fukasemasahisa_family","title":"Family","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"175\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase's photo book \"Kazoku \/ FAMILY.\" Based on the photo collection of the same name published in 1991, this is a new edition published later, and it is a book that has a particularly private yet universal strength among Fukase's representative works.\u003cbr\u003eThe setting is the Fukase Photo Studio, his family home in Bifuka-cho, Hokkaido. It is a series of photographs taken of his family as subjects in the studio of the photo studio, which had been in business for three generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"341\"\u003eIn 1971, Fukase returned to his hometown with his wife, Yoko, after more than a decade, gathered his family in the studio, and began taking commemorative photos. However, what is there is not just orderly family photos. A half-naked Yoko blends in with the family, and a sense of staged incongruity, humor, and tension is inserted into the frame. It was also an attempt to shake the institution and fictitiousness of traditional family photography from within, while borrowing its form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"494\"\u003eThe shooting continued intermittently for about 20 years, documenting the family's growth, aging, death, and the demise of the photo studio. The process by which the series, which initially contained parody and playfulness, changed over time into a record that inevitably reflected the rise and fall of the family is deeply moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"612\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThis book contains portraits of the family in chronological order of shooting, along with Fukase's own autobiographical texts and commentaries. It is not only a family history, but also a content that reflects the post-war Japanese era and even the cruelty of the medium of photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"612\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e[Title] Kazoku \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFAMILY by Masahisa Fukase\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] MACK\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] 2019\u003cbr\u003e[Page Count] 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Size] approx. 230*310mm \/ 840g\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e[Language] English, Japanese\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] KAZOKU\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor] Masahisa Fukase\/Author, Tomo Kosuga\/Text\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] -\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781912339570\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] Used [4] Good to Fair (Dent at bottom corner of fore-edge)\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] None\u003cbr\u003e[Featured in] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibitions] 2023 \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMasahisa Fukase (1934–2012)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"163\"\u003eBorn in Bifuka-cho, Nakagawa-gun, Hokkaido, in 1934. Photographer.\u003cbr\u003eAfter graduating from the photography department of Nihon University College of Art, and working at Nippon Design Center and Kawade Shobo Shinsha, he became independent in 1968. He boldly transformed extremely private subjects such as his private life, family, beloved cats, hometown, and loneliness into works of art, and is highly regarded as a representative figure of \"I-photography\" in the history of Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"374\"\u003eIn 1974, he participated in the historic exhibition \"New Japanese Photography\" at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, gaining international recognition. In the 1970s, he published \"Yoko,\" which focused on his wife Yoko, \"Sasuke\" and \"Neko no Mugiwara Boshi\" (Cat's Straw Hat), which featured his beloved cats, and \"Kazoku\" (Family), which explored blood ties and time through family portraits. His representative work \"Karasu\" (Ravens), published in 1986, received global acclaim as a photo book that symbolically expressed a sense of loss and solitude, solidifying Fukase's reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"564\"\u003eIn 1992, he suffered a brain injury due to an accidental fall in Shinjuku Golden Gai and subsequently spent a long period in recuperation. He passed away in 2012. After his death, the evaluation of his work further increased, and a large-scale retrospective exhibition \"The Incurable Egoist\" was held at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2017. In 2018, a retrospective was held at KYOTOGRAPHIE, in 2019 at Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, and in 2023 at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"620\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eHis practice, which expanded photography into self-confession and theatrical expression, continues to have a profound impact on photographers and researchers around the world today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"516\"\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasato Seto\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ふかせまさひさ｜深瀬昌久 \/ FUKASE Masahisa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44276806189098,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/family-6447985.jpg?v=1776843435","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.live\/en\/products\/fukasemasahisa_family","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}