About the Japanese photographer, Miyako ISHIUCHI (*1947)
Miyako ISHIUCHI grew up in Yokosuka, and in 1977 she made her first public appearance with Yokosuka Story. This brought her to attention beyond Japan. Her photographic works, after urban & street photography in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focus mainly on the human close-up: body, skin as well as personal objects. In the Japanese pavilion of the 51st Venice Biennale she exhibited her series 'Mother's'. Miyako ISHIUCHI lives and works in Tokyo.
Photo books by Miyako ISHIUCHI (a selection)
- 'Apartment' (1978); 'Yokosuka Story' (1979); 'Endless Night 2001 / Ren’ya no Machi' (1981); '1·9·4·7' (1990); 'Yokosuka Again 1980–1990' (1998); 'Scars' (2005); 'Club & Courts Yokosuka Yokohama' (2007); 'Innocence' (2007); 'Hiroshima. ひろしま' (2008); 'Photographs 1976–2005' (2008); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s' (2009, by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'foam magazine #25' (2010); 'Infinity∞: Shintai no Yukue. 石内都Infinity∞ 身体のゆくえ' (2010); 'Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976–1978' (2010); 'Tokyo Bay Blues' (2010); 'Frida' (2014); 'Hasselblad Award 2014' (2015); 'Belongings' (2015); 'From Yokosuka' (2016); 'Yokohama Gorakuso' (2017); 'Beginnings. 1975' (2018)