The title is sensational but it's borrowed from many media outlets, the real story is far more complex. I hope you enjoy this video. A major thank you to our sponsor exposure for sponsoring a segment of this video, if you want to check out my stories talking about how I put my first book together and my travels check it out here: tatianahopper.exposure.co/from-egypt-to-south-of-france

@mid90s75

Ай бұрын

Glad to see you posting more on there Hopper!

Honestly this might be one of your best videos. I'm a big fan of Japanese photography so I'm biased but still please bring more!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the support biased or not ahah

@Nightmvoeskn5zg

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper 😅

There's something about seeing the work of a someone laid out like that. He put his entire soul and being into his art, and though his life is objectively heartbreaking, he sought out beauty to describe it. The beauty in the people and places he loved, and even the beauty in the capturing of all the ugly things. The stillborn, the ravens, the suffering animals. He had an eye for the things that resonate.

Thank you for all those beautiful stories you tell us about known and not so well known photographers.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the donation and for the kind words, I appreciate your support and I’m glad to be able to bring these stories to you!

I’m always in awe of the videos you put out!! The photographers that you showcase and their art. This one is one of your best!!!! I’ve never heard of this gentleman or really 70% of the artists that you enlighten me with. But I’m so glad that you do!!! Thank you so very much and I hope that you will continue to do so! Best wishes always!!!!!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Terry I really appreciate it and I’m happy to be able to introduce different artists to the audience, thanks for the support and kind words!

This resonates with me so deeply. My narcissistic ex-girlfriend told me before I left her 4 years ago and destroyed my life that "your camera is creating distance." Even though at the time my lens was primarily pointed at her to capture and show her the beauty I saw and to capture our moments together. I asked her after I left her what she meant and why she said it and she said she didn't know, that she loves photographers and that he current boyfriends were so jealous of the photos I made of her... It's been years and it's like I am addicted to the poison that she is, but at least I am back in college, even though I am 39, and one year through the commercial photography program. I want an MFA or a PHD eventually. It is true I am in love with photography, I too went through a phase in 2021-22 when I was photographing the massive murders of crows over Portland Oregon. There would be hundreds if not thousands of them flying in massive black clouds over the Willamette River to sleep in the trees along the waterfront. The cacophony of cawing was so loud as they settled into their branches.

@alandargie9358

Ай бұрын

Another wonderfully interesting video, thanks Tatania! I didn't know anything about Fukase, nice to discover his work and story.

@Atomicgherkin

Ай бұрын

This is beautifully written, and your experiences would make a beautiful photo book. 🙏🏼

Terrific mini documentary here on a fascinating photographer. Sometimes I think if it wasn't for the internet, we never would've known about photographers Masahisa Fukase. His life story reminds me fo the 1989 Japanese film 'Black Rain' (not the one starring Michael Douglas) about a Japanese family trying to remain true too the social mores of the time, even after their country suffered a devastating attack and unbelievable losses. The photo at 2:56 is a personal favorite. The cat singing a debut with the singer on television is priceless. As with late poet Edgar Allan Poe, Fukase seemed to embrace melancholia the same way one embraces a lover. Several of Fukase's photographic projects such as his family portraits as 'archiving death' and photographing his still born child is what some would consider questionable. To quote an old military saying, 'if sailor/solider believes they're going to die in combat, that person will find a way to make if happen'. It seems to be true of Masahisa Fukase. It's unfortunate Fukase suffered that head injured which ended his photographic career. Perhaps his photos might be inspiration to future artists.

Just beautifully put together with some lovely theories and insights into his life. Really appreciated this Tatiana.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

Incredible! A very caring and insightful piece. Would love to see more like this.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, more on the way :)

Just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to this photographer and his exceptional work! Your storytelling was also fantastic, he seems a fascinating character.

@TatianaHopper

19 күн бұрын

Thank you so much, glad you appreciate it.

Thanks for this. Fukase is one of my favorite photographers and Ravens one of my favorite books. He greatly influenced my feelings and approach to photography. Some of his phots are banal, but so many are deeply moving.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

I agree, these images can strike a cord I would say particularly ravens, thank you for watching!

As always, truly grateful for the opportunity to learn from your work. Thank you!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Darryl!

Another wonderfully interesting video, thanks Tatiana! I didn't know anything about Fukase, nice to discover his work and story.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Alan! Appreciate it! 🤍

Thank you for this very interesting and well made video. I am not that familiar with Fukase's work but am inspired to explore it. The quotations about Fukase are especially nice.

@ZaneRichards-pk3bb

Ай бұрын

If you can, get your hands on his photobooks. Ravens is exemplary.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for giving it a watch, it’s worth to dive deeper I would in particular either recommend the monograph I used in this video which reunites different images and projects he worked on during his life and of course “Ravens” which is a staple.

You are so good at what you do 😊another incredibly well informed video and visually stunning!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much I really appreciate it and thanks for being a member! 👍🏻

great overview, thank you. I never got the "destructive" perspective of photography on his life. he was an artist and it was his joy. He may have been dark but that doesn't equal the negative aspects that some might try to conflate.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Totally, I think a lot needs to be put into context because I don’t think it should be necessary viewed negatively, thanks for your comment and for giving it a watch.

Great video. Yes, some colleagues went through a complex and painful life, not always for been photographer, no matter what they have done for paying the bills. I agree with you, photography was a lifeboat in his own way.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Claudio!

Thank you so much. this is my favourite piece you have made. Wonderful.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking your time to watch this. I appreciate it!

Finally videos on Japanese photographers, after your Moriyama video I thought you should explore that territory as we don't get to see many videos on them, uncharted territory full of legends. Well done Hopper, Fukase needs more exposure (pun with your sponsor lol).

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you, I agree, going to try and bring some more videos on Japanese photography (great pun)!

@Maudey-jq1pz

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper Cheers!

@lesz344

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper great video. I wonder if Fukase had any connection to Daido Moriyama's buddies at Provoke Magazine in Tokyo of the 1960s? It would be an interesting connection if it happened.

i had the pleasure of seeing fukase's work in tokyo in 2023. such a fascinating story albeit a terribly sad one. RIP Sir i feel your pain

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Agreed! Thank you for watching.

Beautiful work Tati, thank you for sharing.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, appreciate it as always!

Great presentation. Thank you!

Thanks for another source of inspiration! I'm fascinated by the work of Japanese artists that I am discovering through this channel.

Fantastic video. Thank you for your work.

This was a great video. Thanks for doing these. I appreciate them greatly and assume many other people do!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Gary! Appreciate the kind words.

I frankly had no idea with the body of works of Masahisa Fukase. My latest works of photography feels home for me with the works of Fukase, Morimaya, Winogrand, Mary Ellen Mark, Cohen, and Meyeroitz. And then therese my acquaintance from high school I went back on Guam in 2011 to 2014. Making pictures of people without consent is my photography style I actually felt the most comfortable with. My discomfort comes way more on how people getting self-concious rather than me being anxious entirely. I would my photograph my journey as "His Little Way" to give back to the community and the metro Seattle. I really dedicated my style and body of work as a street photographer to Alexandra's black one-piece bathing suit! People will not understand my current body of work with my camera; but she once told me to hold my head high. This shoot was photographer portrait photographer while still living on Guam. But the way that she came out on these shoots; has my mind rent-free. So much things that I cannot properly explain. I might be starting to hear the electrical noise on electrical lines with my pumping heart... The combination of the vibes of Serial Experiments Lain, Mary Ellen Mark, and Alexandra's Black Bikini shoots has me decided not to pursue the traditional portrait and client photoshoots! While photographing the homeless and the mentally ill on the streets in Downtown Seattle often.

Excellent work. Love to learn about these photographers.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed these videos!

Very fascinating. Taking into account the total symbology/archetype of ravens in Japanese culture, it seems appropriate he sub- consciously chose ravens as an arcatypical running theme. Carl Jung would be proud.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Yes I think it makes sense that's why I tried to understand what they really mean or if their meaning is somehow different to what is that in my western culture. Jung, Freud and all the gang ahah.

Great video, thanks! greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Greetings to Buenos Aires, thank you for watching!

HOLY SHIT !!! this is an artist that was so ffff far ahead of the world of photographic art !!!!! I feel that photography kept him alive, gave him life. This is the purest of story telling, fine art , pure art in my opinion. I is jarring, breath taking, beautiful dark happy simple and complex I am left gobsmacked !

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy his work David, definitely worth a more closer look if you're interested, I left some links and book references in the description, thank you for watching!

Thank you once again for your interesting and inspiring videos.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching 🙏🏻

i really wish your videos were longer. great content, i always immediatly click on your videos

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate it 🤝🏻

Though I have never heard of him before I'm very impressed with his body of work, however I'm saddened to see how his last days were spent. Thank you Tatiana for the introduction to his work and another excellent video. ❤😎

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

I know it’s quite a sad ending for such a life full of emotion, events, photos and creativity. I suppose life isn’t meant to be fair but at the end of the day we have his amazing work to represent his artistic capabilities!

Both beautiful and sad ❤ great video as usual x

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Sadie! 🤍

Really love his crow and bathtub images, this was a good one to follow along to

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Kevin.

Wow. That was a stunning episode, solidly written and composed to frame some awesome images. The highlight for me was the images from the Solitude series, which I didn't read as depressive (although Fukase obviously was) but inspiring, because despite his state, he was able to produce his most compelling work. Not exactly surprising that he was derailed by alcohol and stairs, but to linger for that long afterwards, seems so random. Or did his "revenge play against life" with photography in wishing to "stop the world" inspire life to exact it's own revenge against him, and make him almost like a static image with a 20 year coma? 😕

I have complete empathy with this photographer ❤

Thanks for introducing me to a photographer with whom I was not familiar.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Scott!

Thanks again for a beautifully produced and thought provoking video. Why people think like that I don’t know. I mean you could say that about people who engage in activities where they actually risk their lives but photography as a death wish is about as realistic as accountancy. Are photographers more likely to be alcoholic misanthropes? Is it just Japanese photographers? Is it to do with the war, or growing up in a cold, isolated place like Hokkaido? I think he was a photographer who had a certain personality that drove his photography in a certain direction. He wanted to use photography almost purely as self expression and maybe a way to document his understanding of his culture, the failure of ideas and technology to improve the world. Rather than destroying it, if anything, photography probably saved his life and gave it a meaning he could live with. He fell down because of alcohol. If he’d been a heavy smoker who died of cancer no one would have thought of saying photography destroyed his life.

great video. I learned so much tonight. thank you!!! :)

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🤝🏻

Thank you Hopper for another beautiful video.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Your videos are a breath of fresh air in contrast to all the gear reviews on KZread.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Dave, appreciate you for watching!

Very interesting and stimulating. Appreciate your work. Regards.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Bernard!

Fascinating. Thank you.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you ❤

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🤍

Fantastic story! Thank you very much for that 🤩

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching 🤝🏻

Thank you for a fascinating video. Wonderful. RS. Canada

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much Richard! Appreciate it!

I went to see his exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. It was nice. You did a great portrait video, as always. This year, I went to see an exhibition by another Japanese photographer, Yasui Nakaji. Maybe you know him. I hope you can make a portrait of this avant-garde Japanese artist in the future.

Finished the video I mean his story is quite sad but at the same time I do agree that perhaps with everything put into context he wasn’t necessarily “obsessed” with anything, who knows. I liked the narrative very much, not sure about some of the photos just not very keen on his style but still appreciate it. Cheers for Thailand currently!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your input I’m glad you kept an open mind and still watched it despite maybe the style of photography not being for you, best !

Photography didn't destroy his life. Photography was his life.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Precisely my point.

this is the first time I've cried over an KZread video, excellent work Tatiana!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching Dante. Best to you!

Awesome, I just started reading up on this guy

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Great timing!

One of the more intriguing photographers I’ve seen on your channel. My type of photographer; can’t believe I’ve never heard of him before 😲

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Intriguing is a great word, I think that was how I felt when I first heard of his story, I was intrigued because I just knew it wasn't as simple as media outlets were portraying him and his story to be.

Excellent episode Tatiana !❤

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🤍

@dickblom290

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper Before we go any further ,I think it's time to put Ms. Hopper in the spotlight for her unfailing and stupendous choice in videos ! One always learns so much it is uncanny ! Carry on Ms.Hopper ! (And now back to the program )

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Grateful for your words, thank you! 🙏🏻

Thanks for the exciting documentary. I had never heard of him before.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Thomas!

Great video. Thanks for sharing it!

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Well done. Tatiana, one of your best.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Jay!

Great video!

Let’s go, intro is already 🔥

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🤝🏻

Well done, T! ❤

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you Nino! 🤍

thank you

Very interesting.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

I have a personal question, I've been told that I should have a written statement introducing my essays "photo series" for people to read about the "back" story of the images. I have been reluctant to do so as I want the viewer to interact the images on a personal level related to their life experiences emotions, not to try and see them from "my" perspective. What is your recomendation thank you for stepping outside the lines on this but with your obvious talent at story telling and photography your thoughts are of value to me

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

I mean when you think about it, everything has an introduction when you go to an exhibition there’s a brief introduction printed somewhere in the beginning, same with most books, if it doesn’t work for you because you don’t want people’s vision to be influenced why don’t you just write an afterword. That way you still have something to present to people but after they’ve seen the photos you presented.

@daviddyephotography

Ай бұрын

@TatianaHopper excellent idea, hadn't thought of that and mull it over to see how I can make it work. obrigado! from Braga Portugal

That intro song is a agonizingly close to binary sunset, like a single note away. Almost hurts not to hear it go to that note.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

You mean the John Williams one?

@liampugh

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper yeah, it’s more like three notes away (and in a different key) but it’s still so close, I had to go and listen before coming back to the video, sorry lol.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

It’s okay 👍🏻

Will you make a video of Araki? Even though he's somewhat controversial I think his life's work is worth covering. Moriyama Daido is another photographer definitely worth a close look.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

I’ve made a video on Moriyana already you can find it somewhere in the channel, Araki is a maybe, he has been on my list for a while, good shout!

@ZaneRichards-pk3bb

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper From what I've heard, Araki is nearing his end, so this might be a good time to cover his life's work.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Oh I didn’t know that. I’ll do a quick search and see what I can find, cheers Zane!

@ZaneRichards-pk3bb

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper I hope to hear back on what you find, and do. Cheers to you as well.

Obsessed with this guy...thank you

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🫶🏻

❤

This was so well done - I’m even - dare I say it? Interested in today’s sponsor…

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for giving the video a watch Richard, appreciate it, all info is in the description :)

Cool Beans

Blanking out breasts in these images is indicative of American puritanical idiocy. It’s great and reassuring to see photographers from a range of cultures. Thanks for the video

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

It’s something we do to not have the video censored by KZread itself, you can thank them 🤝🏻

@blackburneflw

Ай бұрын

@@TatianaHopper Yes you must comply. KZread is American owned. Artistic expression is stifled by a nation and its companies that maintain they have freedom of expression in one of their constitutional amendments. The rest of the world see’s the absurdity of their ‘constitutional rights’ vs their censorship. Thanks for the video. I will subscribe to your channel. 0:30

Really enjoyed your documentary, but showing 'a detail' from someone's photo is to me, a little counter productive. After all, a photographer tries to capture an image, which they carefully (or not) compose. So, why not just show what they, the photographer, wanted us to see? 😉

Photography on review, not the gear... I hope a good photography school makes you an offer for your fine work.

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

FU-ka-se

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Brownie points for Frank Zappa here.

Thank you for a fascinating video. Wonderful. RS. Canada

@TatianaHopper

Ай бұрын

Thank you for taking your time to watch it Richard, appreciate it!