Grain and Image Miyako Ishiuchi

This is the official exhibition catalogue tracing the 40-year trajectory of Miyako Ishiuchi (born 1947), one of the most highly acclaimed international photographers, notable for becoming the first Asian woman to win the Hasselblad Award in 2014.

Ishiuchi's work, which is lauded for evoking memory from the traces of life left on structures, skin, and personal effects, is often described as a "fabric of memory." Centered on the theme of "Grain (Kime)," this volume contains approximately 240 self-selected works, ranging from early, previously unpublished photographs to her latest series.

The book comprehensively covers her career, from her early landscapes of "towns" and "buildings" in series like Yokosuka Story and APARTMENT, to her post-90s focus on the remains and scars of "people" and "objects" in works like Mother’s, Hiroshima, and Scars. It is an invaluable retrospective that consistently presents Ishiuchi's world, which perpetually explores presence and absence, human memory, and the vestiges of time.