Fukase Masahisa: del trauma a la escena fantasmática en Ravens
Abstract
This paper examines Fukase Masahisa’s series Ravens (1975–1986) as a key work in contemporary Japanese photography, where the image becomes a vehicle for processing loss and melancholy. The study analyses how the author’s trajectory, marked by traumatic personal experiences, translates into an aesthetic that combines the documentary with the symbolic. Drawing on primary sources—photobooks, archives, and interviews—and a theoretical framework that incorporates the notion of a «phantasmatic scene» alongside concepts of trauma and memory, it argues that Ravens transcends the autobiographical to construct a universal visual narrative about human fragility. The article offers a critical reading that situates the work in dialogue with the Japanese aesthetic tradition and with contemporary debates on subjectivity, representation, and spectrality.
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