MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED

Masahisa Fukase was a Japanese photographer, and his wife, Yōko Wanibe, appeared frequently in his work. In the summer of 1973, while they were still married and living together in Tokyo, he began photographing her from their apartment window as she left for work. He repeated this over many mornings, and the images later became known as the From Window series. Fukase photographed her in other settings as well, and at least one of those photographs was taken against her will, and although she objected to it, he promised not to publish it. He later published it anyway. Yōko later wrote that he only seemed to see her through the camera and described their life together as suffocating. She filed for divorce in 1976. The photographs were eventually exhibited and published, and the series is now regarded as a record of their marriage shortly before it ended.#history #historical #storytime

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