“In my 40 years on earth, a cat has always hung around me like a shadow,” the late Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase wrote, in an essay first published in 1978. That was, until he adopted a “tiny, ...

The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art. On paper, a movie about this mysterious and erratic artist ...

Masahisa Fukase is best known for his 1986 photobook The Solitude of Ravens. In 2010, a panel of experts voted it the best photobook of the past 25 years. Like all of Fukase's work, it's a stark book ...

“People often ask me why I take photographs of cats,” the late Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase wrote in 1978. “What an idiotic question! I’m a professional photographer — and I am mad about cats ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Masahisa Fukase’s sorrow seeps through his later photographs like a poison: painful, suffocating, ...

The advent of selfies and Instagram has fundamentally shifted the way we think about photography. Perhaps one of the more welcome casualties of this change is the posed family portrait. Family, by ...

The British Journal of Photography recently asked a panel of experts, including photographer Chis Killip and the writer Gerry Badger, to select their best photobook of the past 25 years. Surpisingly, ...

First released in 1991, Family by the late photographer Masahisa Fukase is a series of 31 family portraits laid out in chronological order. This month, MACK re-releases Fukase’s last book as a ...

Mark Gill’s depiction of Fukuse’s turbulent life and brilliant work is inventively told and lovingly packaged. Taking its title from a 10-year black-and-white project published to wide acclaim in 1986 ...

The Japanese photographer focused obsessively on his wife and muse Yoko from the day they met till the day she left. Then he switched to ravens – and created the best photobook of the last 25 years ...