Japanese Photographer Miyako Ishiuchi’s New Book Documents Frida Kahlo’s Clothing

Japanese Photographer Miyako Ishiuchi’s New Book Documents Frida Kahlo’s Clothing


Photographer and artist Miyako Ishiuchi is one of Japan’s most notable female photographers with a career spanning 35 years. In her recent TateShots video interview, Ishiuchi states, “I started photography to ascertain my origins.”

Ishiuchi’s previous works Mother (2005) and Hiroshima (2007) both focused on the photographing of previously-worn garments, evoking the lives and memories of the people who wore them as well as the social climate of post-war Japan.

Images from the book Frida by Ishiuchi (2013)
Courtesy of RM

Images from the book Frida by Ishiuchi (2013)
Courtesy of RM

Having just won the 2014 Hasseblad Award, Ishiuchi has again created “portraits” of someone’s clothing and possessions for her latest book, Frida by Ishiuchi (2013), released by the Latin American art book publisher RM.

Frida by Ishiuchi is the first-ever photographic documentation of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s archive of dresses and personal belongings. The book gives an intimate view of Ishiuchi’s very personal take on Kahlo’s private universe. As a female artist looking at the wardrobe of another female artist, Ishiuchi reveals an intuitive poetry of what it is to dress and how these items are worn.

Images from the book Frida by Ishiuchi (2013)
Courtesy of RM

 

Frida by Ishiuchi (2013) book cover
Courtesy of RM


See Miyako Ishiuchi’s work in person: 

An exhibition of her work, Miyako Ishiuchi – 2014 Hasselblad Award Winner, will open on November 7, 2014, at the Hasselblad Center in the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweden.

Ishiuchi’s early work Yokosuka Story 1977 is on display at the Tate Modern until May 11, 2014.

Want more Frida? See Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide’s 2005 book, El Bano de Frida in which she documented the space and items within Kahlo’s bathroom, opened for the first time 51 years after her death.
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