Ishiuchi Miyako: ‘Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, Hiroshima 1945/2007’

The photographer Ishiuchi Miyako has photographed the remanning fragments from the bombings of Hiroshima in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum as an extension of her previous work. She has photographed, for several years now, images of places, objects and people that outline and define her history. She is bringing that kind of attention to the artifacts remaining from a darker part of American History and in a beautiful way.

"Ms. Ishiuchi visited Hiroshima for the first time in 2007, on assignment from a Japanese publishing house to photograph artifacts stored at theHiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. She focused on personal effects of people who died in the bombing, specifically on materials that had had direct contact with the dead. She recently collected more than 200 images in a limited-edition book, from which this show is drawn."

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-Kevin Houlahan