![FUKASE, Masahisa (b. 1934). 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, complete with the fragile glassine jacket (minor wear to glassine). Fukase's signature in paint pen on front endpaper.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2012/CSK/2012_CSK_07558_0269_000(fukase_masahisa_karasu_ravens_tokyo_sokyusha_1986_square_4_62_black_an081702).jpg?w=1)
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FUKASE, Masahisa (b. 1934). 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, complete with the fragile glassine jacket (minor wear to glassine). Fukase's signature in paint pen on front endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and in the fragile glassine dust-jacket and slipcase. '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).Auer 663; The Photobook, vol. I, p.306.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FUKASE, and in the fragile glassine dust-jacket and slipcase. '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).Auer 663; The Photobook, vol. I, p.306.