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First and only edition. Linen hardcover, illustrated throughout in black-and-white, unpaginated [84 pages], 10.4 x 9 inches, essay by Koko Yamagishi.Bukubuku is Fukase's considered to be Fukase's final major project before he suffered a debilitating accident in 1992. The series consists of self-portraits taken in the bathtub with an underwater camera. The book includes a text by Koko Yamagishi."Bukubuku (Bubbling) has been remembered among us as Masahisa Fukase's unspoken-of work, a series that had been sealed, so to speak. At the time [February 1992] there was, behind the scenes, a growing atmosphere where people had started to have misgivings about Fukase's confused and failing behaviors. Friends had started to worry about him living alone, and when before too long, the accident occurred, the whole event itself, too, was taken as an incident that characterized Fukase as a photographer.What strikes me now going through Fukase's last series of works, is how they were backed up by thorough… Read More