Hiroshima

Photographs: Miyako Ishiuchi
Publisher: Shueisha Inc
77 pages
Pictures: 63 plates
Year: 2008
ISBN: 9780888652416
Price: $45
Softcover with obi band, 6 x 8.7 in

Straight flat shots of clothing and personal items that were found in Hiroshima in the wake of the 1945 nuclear attack. A haunting piece, quite impossible to describe. The garments are part of the permanent holdings of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Ishiuchi is also know for her inventory of the clothes of Frida Kahlo.

A photobook comprising internationally acclaimed photographer Miyako Ishiuchi's monumental “Hiroshima” series, in which she captured items and clothes left behind by victims of the atomic bomb explosion in her unique style.