When the photography series “Yokosuka Story” debuted in Tokyo in 1977, the artist recalls it was announced as “the work of an unknown woman.” Ishiuchi Miyako had adopted her mother’s maiden name, not wanting to show the images under her real name, and had funded the project with money reserved for her dowry.
Ishiuchi Miyako: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Japan’s Postwar Photography
NOELLE BODICK, Blouin Art Info, October 7, 2015
