ISHIUCHI, Miyako - Yokohama Gurakuso

Background information

"Gorakuso was the name of an apartment complex in Yokohama. Built in 1932 as a Tokyo businessman’s gift to his daughter, after the war it was repurposed by the American forces as a brothel for their soldiers. In certain ways an answer to her first published work 'Apartment' (1978), looking through Miyako ISHIUCHI’s 'Yokohama Gorakuso' series brings out the other, secret history of this building complex." (publisher's note, © Sokyusha, 2017)

Statement by the photographer, Miyako ISHIUCHI

"Discovering these facts, the murkey shadow that I had felt in the beginning […] made complete sense to me." (© Miyako ISHIUCHI, afterword)

Content

"'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains architecture photographs in black-and-white, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)

About the Japanese photographer, Miyako ISHIUCHI

Photo books by Miyako ISHIUCHI