• Front cover of “Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective” (akaaka), yellow cloth hardcover with black title.
  • Interior spread from “Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective” with “Yūgi (Homo Ludence)” essay text and a soft-focus portrait photograph.
  • Interior spread showing crows on a fence under a bright moon and a dark opening on a tiled wall.
  • Interior spread with a black-and-white street scene and a black-and-white photograph of a nude figure on a bed.
  • Interior spread with black-and-white photographs including a nude figure curled on the ground and a storefront scene with nude figures.
  • Interior spread with an abstract circular still life image and a graphic portrait-like composition.
  • Interior spread with a grid of small black-and-white portraits photographed from above (From Window series).
  • Interior spread featuring a crow silhouette on a branch and a second image of birds in flight.
  • Interior spread with a cat near a Go board and a second image of a cat leaping through a window frame.
  • Interior spread with two black-and-white cat photographs, including a cat stretching against a wicker chair.
  • Interior spread with black-and-white portraits of two men posed in a studio, including a standing and seated portrait.
  • Interior spread with “Aruku Me (Walking Eye)” text and a black-and-white photograph of a damaged car at night.
  • Interior spread with a view from a train window and a black-and-white photograph of a swan in a park.
  • Interior spread with a contact-sheet style grid of underwater portraits in a bathtub.
  • Interior spread showing bibliography and reference list pages.
  • Interior spread with a biographical timeline layout, text columns, and small archival photographs.
  • Interior spread with Japanese bibliography and reference list pages.
  • Spine detail of “Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective” showing Japanese and English title on yellow cloth.
  • Back cover of “Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective” with inset black-and-white photograph of a smiling woman beside a car.
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Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective

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Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective is a 2023 Akaaka photobook published for the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum exhibition, bringing together eight major series from the artist’s work between the 1960s and early 1990s.

  • 2023 retrospective photobook by Masahisa Fukase
  • Published by Akaaka Art Publishing for the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
  • Includes eight key series, from Yōko and Family to Ravens and Bukubuku
  • 216 pages, cloth hardcover, 220 × 148 mm
  • Texts in Japanese and English
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About the Book

Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective — an Akaaka photobook spanning the artist’s major series

This Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective volume was published to accompany the large-scale 2023 exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Rather than isolating Fukase through a single celebrated title, the book presents a broader view of the oeuvre, tracing the work from the 1960s to the early 1990s through eight major series.

That scope is what makes the book especially useful. Masahisa Fukase is often reduced to Karasu / Ravens, but this retrospective book places Ravens back into a larger structure that also includes Yōko, Family, Sasuke, Walking Eye, Private Scenes, Bukubuku, and Yūgi / Homo Ludence. For readers interested in Japanese photography, that wider framing is more informative than a single-series reprint.

The result is both a compact survey and a serious entry point into Fukase’s private, autobiographical visual world. The museum framing stresses how strongly he focused on his immediate surroundings — wife, family, daily life, self-projection — while pushing that material toward something unstable, obsessive, and formally inventive. In that sense, the book works as both a photobook and a retrospective map of postwar Japanese photography.

From Yōko and Family to Ravens and Bukubuku

  • Published for the 2023 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum retrospective
  • Brings together eight major Fukase series
  • Includes the first photobook appearance of Yōko since its 1978 publication
  • Useful as an introduction to Fukase beyond Ravens alone
  • Suited to readers of Japanese photobooks and retrospective catalogues

Edition details for Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective

  • Artist: Masahisa Fukase
  • Publisher: Akaaka Art Publishing
  • Publication year: 2023
  • Format: photobook / retrospective catalogue
  • Binding: cloth hardcover
  • Size: 220 × 148 mm
  • Extent: 216 pages
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • ISBN: 978-4-86541-166-9
  • Text by: Tomo Kosuga

About the Author

Masahisa Fukase

Masahisa Fukase (1934–2012) is regarded as one of the most radical and experimental photographers of postwar Japan. He became internationally known above all for Karasu / Ravens, but his wider body of work extends across family, marriage, self-representation, travel, animals, and psychologically charged views of private life.

The retrospective context matters because much of Fukase’s oeuvre remained difficult to access for years. This book repositions him not simply as the maker of Ravens, but as a photographer whose projects around Yōko, family, walking, private scenes, and late self-imaging form a larger and more complex body of work. That broader view is one reason the retrospective volume is so useful for new readers.

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Publisher / Manufacturer: AKAAKA Art Publishing, Inc.
Country of origin: JAPAN
Website: http://www.akaaka.com

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