Signed, Miyako Ishiuchi - Tokyo Bay Blues - 2010

Tokyo Bay Blues

Signed, Miyako Ishiuchi
Sokyusha/2010/Japanese/225*205*13/Missing cover

“Tokyo Bay Blues,” a photo book by Miyako Ishiuchi, one of Japan’s leading female photographers. Published around 1980, “Zessho: Yokosuka Story,” “Apartment,” and “Night After Night” are known as her early trilogy and are masterpieces that are highly regarded not only in Japan but also among art photography books worldwide. Additionally, among the close-up series focusing on bodies and mementos that capture time and memory—a subject Ishiuchi has energetically pursued since the 1990s—works such as “1906,” “Hiroshima,” “Mothers,” and “Frida by Ishiuchi.” While evolving her style, she has remained a leading figure in the Japanese photography scene for nearly 40 years. This book is a collection of previously unpublished photographs capturing Tokyo Bay and its surrounding areas, originally serialized in Camera Mainichi in the early 1980s. It presents another “sea” captured by a photographer who has gazed upon the waters of Yokosuka for many years. “Bay Blues” by Miyako Ishiuchi captures the rapidly changing waterfront area—where Disneyland emerged on the Tokyo Bay shore, and wastelands that had been reclaimed and left abandoned were developed—as it began to undergo significant transformation.