Ishiuchi
Miyako: Postwar Shadows
at J. Paul
Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles
Oct 6, 2015
- Feb 21, 2016
In the
1970s Ishiuchi Miyako shocked Japan’s male-dominated photography establishment
with Yokosuka Story, a gritty, deeply personal project about the city where she
spent her childhood and where the United States established a naval base in
1945. Working prodigiously ever since, Ishiuchi has consistently fused the
personal and political in her photographs, interweaving her own identity with
the complex history of postwar Japan that emerged from the shadows cast by
American occupation.
This
exhibition is the first in the United States to survey Ishiuchi’s prolific
career and will include photographs, books, and objects from her personal
archive. Beginning with Yokosuka Story (1977-78), the show traces her extended
investigation of life in postwar Japan and culminates with her current series ひろしま/hiroshima, on view seventy years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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