ISHIUCHI, Miyako. Hiroshima Tokyo: Shueisha Inc.2008.
8vo.Original matte card wrappers in glossy illustrated dustwrapper and wraparound paper point of sale information. Loosely laid in booksellers’ ticket; a fine, bright copy.
I can’t photograph the past. I can only photograph what happens in the moment I encounter this particular object, my most personal reactions, what I feel and see”
First edition
Miyako Ishiuchi is considered one of the most influential Japanese female photographers to emerge in the post-war period.
Hiroshima is an elegy to the victims of the 1945 nuclear attack, a series of flat shots of beautiful and ghostly photographs of clothes that were later recovered from the city, clothes belonging to the bodies of some of the 140,000 people estimated to have been killed by the bomb. The objects are preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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