Yokohama Gorakuso - Miyako Ishiuchi
A pioneer of Japanese photography, Ishiuchi Miyako turned her lens on the complex history of post-war Japan and the American occupation. Both political and deeply personal, Ishiuchi’s photographs demonstrate mastery of the monochrome, grainy are-bure-boke style popularized by Daido Moriyama. She has exhibited throughout Japan and internationally, and in 2005 she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. Studying in Tokyo in the late 1960s, Ishiuchi’s involvement in radical student protests prompted her to confront the fraught political climate of her hometown of Yokosuka —at one point the site of the largest American naval base in Japan. For her well-known series “Yokosuka Story” (1977), Ishiuchi returned to the city where she was raised to document its residents and to explore her own feelings of resentment, dissociation, and fear. The resulting series of gritty black-and-white photos sent shockwaves through the Japanese photography community and cemented her place among the avant-garde.
A pioneer of Japanese photography, Ishiuchi Miyako turned her lens on the complex history of post-war Japan and the American occupation. Both political and deeply personal, Ishiuchi’s photographs demonstrate mastery of the monochrome, grainy are-bure-boke style popularized by Daido Moriyama. She has exhibited throughout Japan and internationally, and in 2005 she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. Studying in Tokyo in the late 1960s, Ishiuchi’s involvement in radical student protests prompted her to confront the fraught political climate of her hometown of Yokosuka —at one point the site of the largest American naval base in Japan. For her well-known series “Yokosuka Story” (1977), Ishiuchi returned to the city where she was raised to document its residents and to explore her own feelings of resentment, dissociation, and fear. The resulting series of gritty black-and-white photos sent shockwaves through the Japanese photography community and cemented her place among the avant-garde.
A pioneer of Japanese photography, Ishiuchi Miyako turned her lens on the complex history of post-war Japan and the American occupation. Both political and deeply personal, Ishiuchi’s photographs demonstrate mastery of the monochrome, grainy are-bure-boke style popularized by Daido Moriyama. She has exhibited throughout Japan and internationally, and in 2005 she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. Studying in Tokyo in the late 1960s, Ishiuchi’s involvement in radical student protests prompted her to confront the fraught political climate of her hometown of Yokosuka —at one point the site of the largest American naval base in Japan. For her well-known series “Yokosuka Story” (1977), Ishiuchi returned to the city where she was raised to document its residents and to explore her own feelings of resentment, dissociation, and fear. The resulting series of gritty black-and-white photos sent shockwaves through the Japanese photography community and cemented her place among the avant-garde.
Height: 356 mm x Width: 257 mm x Depth: 3 mm - Binding: Softcover, 42 pages.