do you notice how people say they are 'busy' when avoiding you?
from 'yoko' by masahisa fukase, pub. 1978
after thirteen years of marriage, fukase's wife yoko left him. while on a train returning to his hometown of hokkaido, fukase got off at stops and began to photograph something which in his culture and in others represents inauspicious feeling: ravens. he became obsessed with them, their darkness and loneliness. his photographs capture them midflight; crouched in trees at dusk with glowing eyes; and singularly and spectacularly depressingly dead, in cold deep snow. in the forward to 'karasu' (ravens publ. 1986) akira hasegawa writes, "masahisa fukase's work can be deemed to have reached its supreme height; it can also be said to have fallen to its greatest depth. the solitude revealed in this collection of images is sometimes so painful that we want to avert our eyes from it."
from 'karasu' by masahisa fukase, pub. 1986
moving on...
UK Decay first used the mask performing 'Unexpected Guest' during this 1981 Berlin show: "your hospitality, it was the best!"
i'm a PhotoTakerGuy! (see blog).
and rather proud of how i lit this chilling performance by colt at tescodisco. andrea was having visions as she sang, additional keyboards from catherine anne davies.
