ISHIUCHI MIYAKO Yokosuka Story

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ISHIUCHI, MIYAKO.
Yokosuka Story.
Text by Ken Bloom and Ishiuchi. Illustrated with reprodutions of Ishiuchi's photographs. Oblong 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers, corners lightly rubbed; internally very tight and clean, with just the edges of the pages slightly age-darkened. Parr/Badger I 304. first edition.
(Tokyo, Japan): (Shashin Tsushin Co.), (1979)

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Ishiuchi is widely regarded as one of the most important female photographers of the 1970s. The title offered here constitutes one-third of a loose trilogy for which she is best known.

The book addresses the character of place and reflects the Provoke movement's photographic influences. It documents Ishiuchi's return to her hometown Yokosuko, which was also the site of an American-built navel base after WWII. The images are forceful and bleak, conveying a deeply personal narrative that can also be read as an allegory of Japan's national crisis after WW II.