An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness

An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness

Few of Japan’s great photographers had a career as bold and multifaceted as Masahisa Fukase. Though largely defined by his black and white magnum opus Ravens (1986), a book of photographs in which the photographer casts himself as the grim black bird, Fukase managed to express facets of himself through many different proxies. He shot photos of his wife in a slaughterhouse and of himself in the tub. He returned frequently from Tokyo to his family…