3. Mark Holborn. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four, Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography. New York: Aperture, 1986, [p.54-55].
Fukase Mishima, several years older than Araki, was born into a family of portrait photographers. He was originally influenced by the photojournalism of Ken Domon and Ihee Kimura, but going to school and working in Tokyo exposed him to new ways of looking at photography. His series Yōko, taken between 1964-1974, documents his ten-year marriage. The photographs capture Mishima and his wife's relationship in society as well as their relationship to each other. After their divorce, Mishima documented his 1976 trip to his birthplace in the photobook Ravens (Karasu) . The photographs were taken in bad light and weather, sometimes from moving trains, with seemingly little regard for fine photography. Ravens are an ill omen and the images readily capture his bleak despair.

"Rough, Blurred, and Out Of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Post-War Japanese Photography," Case 7, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries, January 2-February 27, 2012