Miyako Ishiuchi
Miyako Ishiuchi (Jap.石 内 都, Ishiuchi Miyako; born March 27, 1947 in Gunma Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese photographer.
Life
Ishiuchi Miyako lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. She grew up in Yokosuka and studied at the Faculty of Design at Tama Art School textile design. In 1977 she made her first appearance in public with the Yokosuka Story, followed in 1978 her picture book followed apartment. With this publication Ishiuchi Miyako was also perceived in Japan and beyond, and the Museum of Modern Art ( Museum of Modern Art / MOMA), New York, acquired from her work for its collection.
Work
Miyako Ishiuchis photographic works focus city and street photography in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, primarily on the human vicinity, the body, the skin and personal items. Important works are this 1.9.4.7 from 1990, the photographic documentation of the skin of the Butoh dancer Kazuo Ōno, and Te, Ashi, Niku, Karada ( " hands, feet, flesh, body ' ), the detail shots in 1995 resulting the body of the Japanese poet Hiromi Ito. 2005 Miyako Ishiuchi took for Japan in its national pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in part. Here she presented her series Mother's ( " Mother ", 2002), photographs of the body as objects of her mother. It is actually excerpts from her deceased mother partially intimate garments or lipsticks and other personal items. A balance sheet of a woman in the second half of the 20th century, which is very personally drawn to life, however distant objective in the photographic method remains. Likewise was the work of Scars, in 2005, close-ups of body or skin extracts, the subject of the exhibition in Venice.