Ishiuchi Miyako's photo book “Beginnings: 1975

This book, which consists of works that were the starting point of Miyako Ishiuchi as a photographer, shows glimpses of her later works such as “Zessho, Yokosuka Story” and “Renya no Machi,” and at the same time, we notice that the straightforward images without pedantry contain the sensibility of a pure gaze. When I look at the photographs from 1975 again, there is no sentimental feeling of nostalgia or memories, but rather a sense of the reality and the length and depth of time that I am still photographing as a mysterious presence” (from the postscript).

Miyako Ishiuchi Born in Gunma Prefecture and raised in Yokosuka. He captured the atmosphere, signs, and memories of the city in his early trilogy, “Zessho, Yokosuka Story,” “APARTMENT,” and “Renya no Machi,” and since “1, 9, 4, 7,” a close-up of the hands and feet of a woman born at the same age, he has continued to photograph scars on the body in a series. He was a representative of Japan at the Venice Biennale in 2005 for “Mother's 2000-2005: Imprint of the Future” and in 2009 he published a collection of photographs entitled “Hiroshima”. In 2009, he received the 50th Mainichi Art Award for his photo book “Hiroshima” (Shueisha) and the photo exhibition “Hiroshima Strings of time” (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art), and was invited to participate in the 3rd International Triennial of Photography Center in New York.