From a distance they may like fine, but when you get up close the image would just fall apart. The same goes for some of the photographs of clothing in her latest series ひろしま / hiroshima (2007, below).

Why you would want print an intimate object like your mother’s lipstick over a metre tall is beyond me… other than to buy into the current fashion in contemporary photographic art, which is to print big. And, more generally, I have always loved Japanese photography from the 1950-70s for these very qualities. The 1970s work has a biting quality of observation and pathos that the later work somehow lacks. I especially like the work from the 1970s period which is, I feel, stronger than the later work from the 1990s onwards. This is a compelling body of work from Japanese artist Ishiuchi Miyako. Paul Getty Museum, Tsuchida Hiromi, Tōmatsu Shōmei, Yokosuka Again, Yokosuka StoryĮxhibition dates: 6th October 2015 – 21st February 2016Ĭurator: Amanda Maddox, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the J. paul getty museum, Japanese art, japanese photographer, Japanese photography, los angeles, Mother's, Polaroid camera, Polaroid portraits, Polaroids, Scars, The J. Tags: 1♹♴♷, 70th anniversary of Hiroshima, Apartment, atomic bomb, atomic bombing of Hiroshima, ひろしま/ hiroshima, Body and Air, Chromogenic print, Contemporary Japanese Photography, Dobuita Dōri, East Asian photography, EM Club, Enlisted Men's Club, Fujikura Yōko, Gutter Alley, Hiragana, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Honchō, Ishiuchi Miyako, Ishiuchi Miyako 1♹♴♷, Ishiuchi Miyako Apartment, Ishiuchi Miyako ひろしま/ hiroshima, Ishiuchi Miyako Body and Air, Ishiuchi Miyako EM Club, Ishiuchi Miyako Endless Night, Ishiuchi Miyako Mother's, Ishiuchi Miyako Scars, Ishiuchi Miyako Yokosuka Again, Ishiuchi Miyako Yokosuka Story, Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows, j. Categories: beauty, documentary photography, exhibition, existence, gallery website, intimacy, Japanese artist, light, memory, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, quotation, reality, space, time and works on paper

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