具体描述
First edition, first printing. Signed "Miyako" in silver marker on the first page by Ishiuchi. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers with a 8-3/4-inch photographically illustrated obi (bellyband) around the front cover; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a cardboard slipcase with printed red and white label. Photographs by Miyako Ishiuchi. Text (in English and Japanese) by Miwa Nishikawa. (The book includes an errata slip noting the correct spelling of Nishikawa's name, which is misspelled in the printing.) Includes an index of plates keyed with thumbnail illustrations. Designed by Triboro, Andrew Roth. Unpaginated, with 202 beautifully printed tritone plates. 9-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Andrew Roth Gallery, New York. This first edition was limited to 1000 copies. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink wrap (slit open for signature). From the publisher: "Sweet Home Yokosuka revisits Ishiuchi's three early works that in retrospect may be considered as a trilogy. [Apartment (1978), Yokosuka Story (1979) and Endless Nights (1981).] Together the photographs manifest a personal document primarily of her hometown Yokosuka, a place of compromised identity, accommodating two large American Naval bases since the late 1940s. Apartment documents both exteriors and interiors of new and old dwellings, generally focusing on the buildings themselves, not their inhabitants. They are in some respects anthropomorphic portraits of the architecture: the repairs on the walls are like veins and the cracking and peeling of old paint are like the scars on aging skin. Yokosuka Story describes Ishiuchi's wanderings in her native city, confronting locations that although changed, still hold the memories of her childhood. And Endless Nights documents the popular 'love hotels,' as abandoned; the physical structure of the places themselves and their furnishings, stairways, corridors and empty beds echo the intimate stories that unfolded there. What is most compelling about this work is not necessarily what Ishiuchi photographed or the seductive rendition of reality into black and white, but rather how she conceptualized the act of picture-taking. Ishiuchi was less interested in finding her unique vision, more comfortable 'using' the medium as a means to confronting herself and her past. This methodology was reinforced by the ideas discussed among her peers from the Provoke movement: Moriyama, Takanashi and Taki Koji, who questioned whether the photographic medium was capable of capturing any version of empirical truth." From the essay by Miwa Nishikawa: "...I sense that a numbing and mysterious pain raced through Ishiuchi with every snap of the shutter, as though she was killing something. What she was killing was the guts of our country, not just in Yokosuka but everywhere in Japan. No matter how beautiful the facade, behind it you can always find something festering and lifeless. How will Ishiuchi's confessional poem, reverberating from within, speak to the future?" Miyako Ishiuchi represented Japan in the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her photographs are included in the collections of the San Francisco MoMA, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Getty Museum, ICP, and others.
