風変わりな家族写真。 写真家の深瀬昌久が、北海道の実家の写真館に戻った1971年から20年近くに亘って撮り続けた写真です。 大家族の中に半裸の妻を投入し、妻だけでなく様々な女性モデルや、時に自身や父も裸となりました。 ３代目くずれである写真家によるパロディとして、伝統的な家族写真を皮肉った作品は、途中中断しつつも深瀬写真館が廃業する1989年まで継続されます。 20年近く継続され、結果的に一家の栄枯盛衰を記録した本書は、最初は遊びの要素が大きかったのですがだんだんリアルになっていきます。 いわゆる家族というものへの違和感や、家族だからこそ感じるおかしみや衝突、悲しみを感じさせてくれます。 1991年にInter Press Corporationより刊行された写真集「家族」の新装版として、イギリスのMACK社より2019年に刊行されました。 [condition] New 新刊 [Artist] 深瀬昌久 Masahisa Fukase [Publisher] MACK [size] 231x311x15mm [Published] 2019年 Photographer Masahisa Fukase’s Kazoku (Family) is a series of unconventional family portraits that he began in 1971 after returning to his family’s photo studio in Hokkaido, continuing the project for nearly two decades. In this eccentric series, Fukase placed his half-naked wife among his large extended family, later including other female models — and at times even himself and his father — nude. As a self-proclaimed “third-generation failure” of a family-run photo studio, Fukase parodied the conventions of traditional family portraits. Despite periods of interruption, the project continued until the Fukase Photo Studio closed in 1989. Spanning almost twenty years, the resulting body of work inadvertently chronicles the rise and fall of his family. What began as a playful experiment gradually took on a more serious tone, conveying a sharp discomfort with the idealized image of the “happy family” and revealing the humor, conflict, and sorrow that emerge within long-term familial relationships. Originally published in 1991 by Inter Press Corporation, this new edition of Kazoku (Family) was reissued by MACK in 2019.