Publisher/赤々舍

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"Play / Homo Ludens (New Edition)" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase (1934–2012). Born in Hokkaido, Fukase studied photography at the Nihon University College of Art and is known as an artist who persistently explored the relationship between photography and life, using people close to him and his own life as subjects. Published in 1971 as part of Chuokoron-sha's "Contemporary Images" series, this book was Fukase's first photobook and can be considered the starting point for his later masterpieces, "Yoko" and "Crow." Composed of multiple chapters, the photographs, taken over more than a decade, depict scenes of slaughterhouses, life with his wife Yoko, urban landscapes of Shinjuku, and family members, reveal a world where human emotions such as love, death, and urban desires intersect. This book, which boldly draws personal experiences into photography, is positioned as a symbol of the self-expression trend in Japanese photography of the 1970s. This book is a reprint by Akakasha, bringing this masterpiece to the modern age.