Miyako Ishiuchi ‘s solo exhibition ” Miyako Ishiuchi, Ginza was my first Tokyo ” will be held at Shiseido Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo from August 29 (Tue) to October 15 (Sun).
Miyako Ishiuchi is a photographer from Gunma Prefecture who was selected to represent Japan at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 with “Mother’s 2000-2005 traces of the future,” a series of photographs of her mother’s belongings.Her internationally acclaimed “Hiroshima,” a series of photographs of the remains of those who died in the atomic bombing that began in 2007 and continues to this day, earned her the Hasselblad International Photography Prize, the Nobel Prize in Photography, in 2014.
The exhibition will feature approximately 30 original prints, including some previously unpublished, from photographs taken by Miyako Ishiuchi for “Ginza Ballad,” which was serialized from June 2022 to May 2023 in “Web Hanatsubaki,” the web version of Shiseido’s corporate culture magazine Hanatsubaki.
In “Ginza Ballad,” the photographs include items that Ishiuchi still treasures and keeps to this day, such as records of singers who inspired him to visit Ginza, paints that were manufactured and sold at Gekkoso during the war, and other items that are connected to Ishiuchi’s memories as well as items that symbolize stores that have created Ginza’s culture.
