Miyako Ishiuchi
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, is a renowned Japanese
photographer.
Ishiuchi has produced collections of photography
since the late 1970s. Her first book was a study of Yokosuka, where she grew up.
Her work favors the oversize grainy prints and gritty subject matter that characterize the pictures of many photographers in the late 1960s and 70s who preferred the are-bure, or grainy-blurry.
She began to take close-ups of the bodies of the very old in the early 1990s.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
photographer.
Ishiuchi has produced collections of photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
since the late 1970s. Her first book was a study of Yokosuka, where she grew up.
Her work favors the oversize grainy prints and gritty subject matter that characterize the pictures of many photographers in the late 1960s and 70s who preferred the are-bure, or grainy-blurry.
She began to take close-ups of the bodies of the very old in the early 1990s.