size:310 x 230 mm
hardcover
96 pages
"Everyone in the upside-down family reflected in the focus glass dies. The photographer that shows and stops them is a death recording device" – Fukase Masahisa
In August 1971, Fukase Masahisa landed in Mifuka Town, northern Hokkaido, accompanied by his wife Yoko. It was the first time in over a decade that he had visited this place, which is his hometown. Fukase's family has been a family that ran a photo studio for three generations, and his younger brother, Ryoki, has taken over the third generation. After reuniting with the family, which has grown into a large family after their younger brother and sister founded a family, Fukase decides to gather them in a photo studio (photo studio) to take commemorative photos of the family. But it went beyond just the form of family photography. He put his half-naked wife in a single waistcoat into his family.
This strange family photo was then continued filming by Fukase, not only her wife but also various female models. The fixed-point photographs accurately confirm the changes in the family year by year, and this is a record that tells the story of a piece of history of a family, but on the other hand, there are fictions that Fukase has created everywhere. One of the purposes of this was to ironic traditional family photographs by mixing elements that were not suitable for family photographs, as can be seen from Fukase's "a parody of me, the third generation ruin," one of the purposes of this was to ironic the traditional form of family photographs by incorporating elements that were not suitable for family photographs.
Filming around the Fukase family was suspended after five years of filming, but it was reopened in 1985, as the old scene of Fukase's father, Sukezo. It was also photographed on the day of my father's funeral, two years later, and was completed in 1989, on the day Fukase Photo Studio closed its doors, that is, on the day when the family was greeted. Initially, this film began to be filmed lightly as a parody of traditional family photographs, and was filmed over nearly 20 years, and in the end it was a cruel and detailed record of the rise and fall of a family.
This book is a new edition of the photo book "Family," published by Inter Press Corporation in 1991. This work, which was the last book that Fukase wrote during his lifetime, has been reborn after more than a quarter of a century. The photographs of family portraits taken at Fukase Photo Studio are included in order of year of shooting, and at the end of the book are an autobiography by Fukase, which was included in the original edition, and an explanation of this work by Tomo Cosga, founder and director of Fukase Masahisa Archives.