Masahisa Fukase - Family Special Edition Werner Mahler

Masahisa Fukase - Family Special Edition Werner MahlerMACK 2019 For three generations the Fukase family ran a photography studio in Bifuka, a small provincial town in the northern Japanese province of Hokkaido. In August 1971, at the age of 35, Masahisa Fukase returned home from Tokyo, where he had moved in the 1950s. He realised that the Fukase Photographic Studio, which his younger brother managed, combined with the growing family members, constituted the perfect subject for a series of portraits.

a survey is conducted of a landscape into which thousands of years of cultural traces have bedded down

ugliness and transience

The title SYNDICATE18 is derived from the name of rapper ICE-T’s record label and stands for the average age of the persons portrayed and the period over which the photographs were taken

all of which were taken in Japan

»Macht Liebe« is a highly political book

it has been produced following the finest tritone printing from the 2008 edition for which Frank was personally involved in every step of the design and production

collecting

out of print

the shop fronts and the windows of private homes

The various forms of expression serve as ways to materialize the ideas at the core of the project and to break down barriers or restrictions within the photographic medium

Following the success of Meeks’ previous book

either as a clichéd paradise or as its demise