Masahisa Fukase - Ravens Swiss Rebels

Masahisa Fukase - Ravens Swiss RebelsMACK 2024 Consistently proclaimed as one of the most important photobooks in the history of the medium, Ravens by Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase was first published in 1986 and the two subsequent editions were both short print runs that sold out immediately. This bilingual facsimile of the first edition contains a new text by founder of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, Tomo Kosuga. His essay locates Ravens in Fukases wider work and life, and is

Located on an island accessible only by rowboat

were the subjects of the first book in her ongoing series

Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress

During his more than 160 km long border survey Hans W

and gender

this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States

militarized

Given a special position in the book is Brohm’s portrait series Flash Ohio (1984)

Dugan has long used photography to understand their own identity and to connect with others on a deeper level

a notion of the self and of pleasure that exists beyond the confines of popular culture and its dominant modes of representation

But all this light plunges the world into night

which challenge the viewer and always rely on her or his ability to draw associations