Fukase had been famous for the joyous photographs he took of his wife. But the marriage dissolved in 1976 and the emotions depicted in Fukase's portfolio began to reverse direction. Fukase became obsessed with the raven. Ten years worth of photographs of these birds make up "The Solitude of Ravens".
The photobook he left behind is a triumph of photographic expressionism, a record of a man who turned inward, leaving behind pure images of personal grief.
You can almost touch the grief of this man, there's so much expression in one frame. Plus, the raven is one of my favorite animals of all time, and so are these pictures!
