FUKASE, Masahisa. Karasu. [Ravens.] Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. Square 4° (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (without the glassine jacket). Fukase's signature in paint pen on front blank.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and with the rare leaf of printed captions laid-in. '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, vol. I, p.306.
FUKASE, Masahisa. Karasu. [Ravens.] Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. Square 4° (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (without the glassine jacket). Fukase's signature in paint pen on front blank.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and with the rare leaf of printed captions laid-in. '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, vol. I, p.306.
![FUKASE, Masahisa. Karasu. [Ravens.] Tokyo: Sokyusha, 1986. Square 4° (257 x 257 mm). 62 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label (without the glassine jacket). Fukase's signature in paint pen on front blank.](/lot-images/5447734/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_06332_0180_000(fukase_masahisa_karasu_ravens_tokyo_sokyusha_1986_square_4_62_black_an111708).jpg?maxwidth=3840)