Miyako Ishiuchi: Time Textured in Monochrome by Miyako Ishiuchi - 1999

National Museum of Art. 1999. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. light shelf wear, ex museum stamp. 107 p. . Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Oct. 5-Dec. 11, 1999. 'The images of Miyako Ishiuchi present us with the bittersweet residue of inevitable change. Her photographs serve as containers of accumulated memories twice removed-bookmarks placed by an unknown reader in a book which, if found later, may not be read again. "I cannot stop [taking photographs of scars] because they are so much like a photograph...They are visible events, recorded in the past. Both the scars and the photographs are the manifestation of sorrow for the many things which cannot be retrieved and for love of life as a remembered present."-Miyako Ishiuchi'-107 p. : ill.; 26 cm. Text in Japanese and English. Japanese title: Monokuromu: toki no utsuwa. .