Summary
Akaaka has released a republished version of Masahisa Fukase’s 1978 photobook, Yoko.
In addition to a newly-designed cover, this latest edition includes the oversight of and an essay by Yoko Miyoshi, the book’s muse.
Through a series of delicate images, Yoko chronicles the lifespan of a relationship and a love that grows sour, including Fukase’s famed T hrough Window (1974) series.
Masahisa Fukase’s Through Window (1974) chronicles a love on the brink of collapse. Over a series of precious albeit obsessive captures, the series tells the story of the decade-long union between Fukase and his then-wife, Yoko Miyoshi, framed through the window of their Tokyo apartment. Each image sees Miyoshi framed through the window of their apartment; luminous and distant, she’s often caugh