Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke (Hardcover)

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One of the creators of a new style of photography in Japan, with Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama, recently featured at a show at MoMa. Masahisa Fukase turned his lens to his new cat Sasuke, and later Momoe. Most of the photos are eye level with his cat; he said he would crawl around after her in an effort to become a cat. In some of the photographs, you can see little glimpses of him reflected in the cat’s eyes; he considers the cat photos his self-portraits. My favorites are the close-up shots of the cats yawning.