Masahisa Fukase - Sasuke (Special Edition B)
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Masahisa Fukase
Sasuke
Sasuke
Book
Published by Atelier Exb, 2021
Size: 26 x 19 cm
Hardcover
Languages: French
ISBN: 978-2-36511-290-1
Edition 12/30
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Published by Atelier Exb, 2021
Size: 26 x 19 cm
Hardcover
Languages: French
ISBN: 978-2-36511-290-1
Edition 12/30
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Print run
Numbered from 1 to 30, in a box with the Sasuke book
Collotype print produced by Benrido studio, Kyoto
Numbered from 1 to 30, in a box with the Sasuke book
Collotype print produced by Benrido studio, Kyoto
certified by a stamp from the Masahisa Fukase Archives.
Size: 24 x 33 cm
Following the monograph on his entire body of work, this book is dedicated to Masahisa Fukase's emblematic series about his two cats, Sasuke and Momoe, mixing iconic and unpublished photographs.
In 1977, Fukase turned his lens on his new companion: Sasuke. Surrounded by felines since childhood, he decided, with the arrival of this new kitten, to make him a photographic subject in his own right, fascinated by this lively creature named after a legendary ninja. To his great dismay, Sasuke disappeared after about ten days, and the photographer plastered around a hundred posters of his lost cat (those reproduced on the book's cover) in his neighborhood. Someone returned his cat, but it wasn't Sasuke; no matter, he welcomed him with just as much affection. A year later, he got a second cat, nicknamed Momoe, who would also become part of his frame. Fukase never tired of photographing their play, which became a veritable playground for limitless visual experimentation. This, as is often the case in his work, is indeed a form of projection of the photographer onto his subject. The cat, a faithful companion who never leaves his side, takes the place of his wife, an eternal heartbreak, later represented by the emblematic fleeing crows.
His cats were the subject of several books during his lifetime. Tomo Kosuga, director of the Fukase archives, revisited this collection of images to create this book as the culmination of a series of publications dedicated to his felines.
- Editor's text
Size: 24 x 33 cm
Following the monograph on his entire body of work, this book is dedicated to Masahisa Fukase's emblematic series about his two cats, Sasuke and Momoe, mixing iconic and unpublished photographs.
In 1977, Fukase turned his lens on his new companion: Sasuke. Surrounded by felines since childhood, he decided, with the arrival of this new kitten, to make him a photographic subject in his own right, fascinated by this lively creature named after a legendary ninja. To his great dismay, Sasuke disappeared after about ten days, and the photographer plastered around a hundred posters of his lost cat (those reproduced on the book's cover) in his neighborhood. Someone returned his cat, but it wasn't Sasuke; no matter, he welcomed him with just as much affection. A year later, he got a second cat, nicknamed Momoe, who would also become part of his frame. Fukase never tired of photographing their play, which became a veritable playground for limitless visual experimentation. This, as is often the case in his work, is indeed a form of projection of the photographer onto his subject. The cat, a faithful companion who never leaves his side, takes the place of his wife, an eternal heartbreak, later represented by the emblematic fleeing crows.
His cats were the subject of several books during his lifetime. Tomo Kosuga, director of the Fukase archives, revisited this collection of images to create this book as the culmination of a series of publications dedicated to his felines.
- Editor's text