One of his latest series, entitled Private Scenes, which highlights the
photographs taken by the artist, over a year, in 1989, at different
places in the world and in which he included himself.
One of the most radical and original figures of her generation,
Masahisa Fukase is a world-renowned Japanese photographer, notably thanks to
to his 1986 book, The Solitude of Ravens, in which ravens
photographed by the artist become the true symbols of his sadness
and his lost love as his marriage to his wife Yoko falls apart.
This new publication shows one of his latest series, titled
Private Scenes, which highlights photographs taken by the artist, during
one year, in 1989, in different places around the world (Paris, London, Brussels, etc.)
and in which he included himself, taking a photo of himself in front of his
subject, thus questioning the relationship that is formed between the one who photographs
and the one who is photographed. He then paints lines of
colors, creating surprising visual effects.
Later, in this same series, he will photograph scenes from life
daily, this time in Tokyo, changing devices and adding the date on
his photographs, but continuing to represent himself in the image.
This work chooses to be exhaustive by reproducing, for the first time
times, all the photographs making up this original series where we
can see a new dimension of Fukase's work, that of the artist with
taken with his medium. The photographs are accompanied by a text by Masako
Toda, a Japanese photography specialist, who allows us to rediscover
the artist's final series, who himself declared in the last years of
his career not being able to "keep himself from putting himself in the picture."
