Masahisa Fukase died about two weeks ago… (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) “Of those who made photographs of experience lived and felt, only a very few could sustain the intensity of that experience and make it into something larger than an immediate visceral scream. This is what Frank’s ‘The Americans’ did for a photographer suffering from the moral disintegration of the exterior world, and this is what Fukase’s ‘The Solitude of Ravens’ [Karasu] does for a photographer, one would guess, suffering from the collapse of a personal interior universe.”(“Fukase’s Face and Photographs”, introductory note by David Travis in ‘The Solitude of Ravens’.) Read: “Brooding and shatteringly lonely, the Japanese photographer’s series on ravens has been hailed as masterpiece of mourning” on The Guardian.

Masahisa Fukase died about two weeks ago… (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012)

“Of those who made photographs of experience lived and felt, only a very few could sustain the intensity of that experience and make it into something larger than an immediate visceral scream. This is what Frank’s ‘The Americans’ did for a photographer suffering from the moral disintegration of the exterior world, and this is what Fukase’s ‘The Solitude of Ravens’ [Karasu] does for a photographer, one would guess, suffering from the collapse of a personal interior universe.”
(“Fukase’s Face and Photographs”, introductory note by David Travis in ‘The Solitude of Ravens’.)

Read: “Brooding and shatteringly lonely, the Japanese photographer’s series on ravens has been hailed as masterpiece of mourning” on The Guardian.

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