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SELECTED EXHIBITION
from the archives

2019
MASAHISA FUKASE
 PRIVATE SCENES
curated by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam

Masahisa Fukase, Yoko: from window, 1973 © Masahisa Fukase Archives

Selection of Fukase’s image-sequence of his wife Yoko leaving the house, photographed daily from their window. 

Now that we are temporarily closed we will continue to share online content, exhibitions, interviews, videos from Fondazione Sozzani archives over the coming weeks. 

The life-work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase (Hokkaido, 1934 - Tokyo, 2012) one of the most radical and experimental photographers of the post-war generation in Japan, remained largely inaccessible for over two decades, following a tragic fall that left the artist with permanent brain damage. In the recent years the archives were gradually disclosed, revealing a wealth of material that had never been shown before. In January2019 the Fondazione Sozzani presented “Masahisa Fukase, Private Scenes”, the first retrospective exhibition of the Japanese photographer in Italy, curated by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in collaboration with Tomo Kosuga, director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives. In addition to his body of work the exhibition shown a number of seminal publications dating from the early 1960s to 1992.

Book Yūgi (Homo Ludence), Chūōkōron-sha, Tokyo, Japan, 1971

“We have lived together for ten years, but he has only seen me through the lens, and I believe that all the photographs of me were unquestionably photographs of himself.”  

Yoko Wanibe, Camera Mainichi, 1973

Book Yohko (Yoko), Asahi Sonorama, 1978

““Am I going to continue taking photos, trying to hold back what flees? The task I have set myself of continually taking photographs in order to hold things back is possibly a way of compensating for life and the passing moment. It is doomed to failure, but it’s also what I most enjoy doing in life.”
Masahisa Fukase, Ravens 2, Camera Mainichi, 1976

Book Kazoku (Family), IPC, Tokyo, Japan, 1991

The Fondazione Sozzani was established in 2016 by Carla Sozzani and is dedicated to the promotion of culture through photography, fashion, fine and applied arts. The Foundation has assumed the patronage of Galleria Carla Sozzani and continues all relevant public functions that the Galleria has supported for the past 30 years. 

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