ISHIUCHI MIYAKO - FROM YOKOSUKA (SIGNED)
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ISHIUCHI MIYAKO
From YOKOSUKA (SIGNED)
Published by Super Lab, 2016
Book size 21.6 x 28 cm
Pages 42 pages (25 Images(b/w) 1Image(color))
Softcover (hand-sewn)
Limited edition of 1000
ISBN: 978-4-905052-96-8
From Yokosuka marks the final episode in Hasselblad Award winner Miyako Ishiuchi's Yokosuka series. Having spent her childhood and adolescence in Yokosuka, the small harbor city has always had a special meaning to Ishiuchi. It is Yokosuka – host to one of the biggest US naval bases in Japan – which became the subject of her first published work, when in 1976 she returned to deal with her experiences in the town by way of a photography.
“I don't think of Yokosuka as my hometown and I have few sweet and joyous memories there. It was natural because Yokosuka, a town of the American naval base, was not comfortable to me as a young girl who had newly moved at the time of entering elementary school, to this new place where my father had been working away from our home in the countryside.”
“I started my career as a photographer by photographing Yokosuka. The vivid contrast of light and shadow inherent in the town somehow created photogenic landscapes as the history of the town seemed to be making invisible scars everyday.”
— from the artist's foreword
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From Yokosuka marks the final installment in Hasselblad Award-winning Miyako Ishiuchi’s Yokosuka series. Having spent her childhood and adolescence in Yokosuka, the small port city has always held special significance for Ishiuchi. It was Yokosuka – home to one of Japan’s largest US naval bases – that became the subject of her first published work, when in 1976 she returned to deal with her experiences in the city through photography.
“I don’t think of Yokosuka as my hometown and I have few sweet and happy memories of it there. It was natural because Yokosuka, a U.S. naval base city, was not comfortable with me as a young girl who had just moved to elementary school, in this new place where my father worked far from our home in the countryside.”
“I began my photography career by photographing Yokosuka. The city’s inherent sharp contrast of light and shadow somehow created photogenic landscapes while the city’s history seemed to leave invisible scars every day.”
– from the artist’s preface