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)

'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains b/w architecture photos, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building. A secret history of this building complex and in certain ways an answer to her first photo volume, 'Apartment' (1978).
48,00 € *
'Miyako Isiuchi. 1976-2005' features panels from 'Yokosuka Story', 'Apartment', 'Endless Night', '1.9.4.7', '1906 to the Skin', and 'Mother's', double-sided on thick accordion-folded paper. The text in English is by Machiel Botman.
98,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Photo volume 'Frida' by Miyako ISHIUCHI shows how Frida Kahlo used her style to project her feminist and socialist beliefs. The photos transform her dresses into objects that testify to personal struggle, cultural awareness as well as artistic ingenuity.
120,00 € Weight 1 kg
This photo volume, 'From Yokosuka' by Miyako ISHIUCHI, marks the final episode of her b/w 'Yokosuka' series, which became the subject of her first published work when she returned in 1976 to process her experiences in the city in the form of a photograph.
0,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
Photo volume, 'Beginnings: 1975', contains Miyako ISHIUCHI’s earliest photographs. The b/w photos were taken from her alldays life and she already seemed to have the vision that led her to create ‘Yokosuka Story,’ ‘Apartment,’ as well as ‘Endless Nights.’
58,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
Out-of-print book 'Um/Around 1979' examines the topicality of documentary photography. Including works by R. ADAMS, D. BENNETT, J. BROHM, D. GOLDBLATT, C. HÖFER, M. ISHIUCHI, U. KLOPHAUS, K. C. KUGEL, B. MIKHAILOV, G. & H. NOTHHELFER, Th. RUFF & R. SINGH.
48,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
In her volume 'Moving Away' Miyako ISHIUCHI herself becomes the subject of her photography. In the time between her decision to move out of the house where she had lived for a long time and her move, she took photos of landscapes, street and detail shots.
from 44,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The out-of-print photo book compendium 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' by Kaneko & Vartanian presents relevant publications of that era. Some of the most influential works and forgotten gems are presented and placed in a sociological context.
498,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
Photo volume 'Club & Courts' by Miyako ISHIUCHI contains grainy, deeply resonant B&W photographs depicting (mostly) abandoned and run-down interiors of a U.S. military entertainment club and apartment buildings in the area where the photographer grew up.
120,00 € Weight 0.6 kg