Ishiuchi Miyako

Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi, one of the most respected and most fascinating of her generation, is the 34th laureate of the prestigious international photography award from the Hasselblad Foundation. This publication celebrates his artistic achievements by presenting in a explored the main themes of his work: memory, fabric and body. An important feature of his work is the meaning and surface treatment, whether human skin, materiality of a personal object or item of clothing. Paying particular attention to surfaces - as traces, mediations and symbols - Ishiuchi approaches front the poetics and politics of history, such as the life of women in post-war Japan or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The book includes works from Ishiuchi's major 1947 series, Scars, Mother's, Hiroshima, Silken Dreams, and Frida by Ishiuchi. Two new essays by Christopher Phillips and Lena Fritsch offer an in-depth analysis of his art.