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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.
– Masahisa FukaseBetween 1971 and 1989, he returned regularly and used the family studio, the large-format Anthony view camera and the changing family line-up as the basis for the series.
Masahisa Fukase's Family is available via MACK books.