Lot 74: MASAHISA FUKASE

Karasu -- Ravens. Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. Square 4° (257 x 257mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, original glassine dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (glassine with short closed tear).

FIRST EDITION, A FINE COPY, 'THE POST-PROVOKE MASTERPIECE OF JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS... a technical as well as an aesthetic tour-de-force... its strength is that it works on so many levels -- graphically, descriptively, technically, metaphorically. The imagery is beautiful, surprising, haunting, but ultimately it is Fukase's masterly handling of the narrative and rhythm that makes it so memorable' (The Photobook, p.306).

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