The long-awaited summation of the forty years of Masahisa Fukase, who pursued privacy and play. On the front line of Japanese photography from the 1960s, he saw his work cut off by an accident in 1992; while Ravens is remembered as an enduring masterpiece, most of the rest lost its chances to be shown. Born into a family that ran a photo studio in Hokkaido, he explored with many methods a photographic expression rooted in the viewpoints of privacy and play, and his inner libido drew in those around him and drove his own life towards ruin. Giving an overview of his career for the first time, the book arranges each work chronologically in 26 chapters, with the intentions and background drawn from the postscripts and notes he left in magazines, so that works seen only in fragments become a trajectory and show what he sought through the camera all his life. A chronology and his main magazine contributions close the volume.