Publisher/平凡社

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A collection of photographs of the representative Japanese female photographer, Miyako Ishiuchi "Nail". Reversing the style of Yokosuka and other early works, he has been working on "body close-up" since the 1990s, and in recent years his own expression for "things" such as the remains of Frida Kahlo and the atomic bomb victims. The city of Ishiuchi that is deepening The photobook of "19.4.7", a photobook of women in 1947 who was the same as Ishiuchi, who became the turning point, is "1.9.4.7", but then the subject of poet Ito Hiromi and Butoh's Kazuo Ohno We focused on the different time- and body-inspired bodies, such as “Scars,” which shows only the scars left on the body, and the photo book that I made. This book is also a collection of photographs of hands, feet, and nails, and in contrast to "1. 9 4. 7", the subject is only for men of different age, occupation, and nationality. "Vague body is covered in time-clothing as it is transformed every day. Because of that, the separated tip rises up and becomes independent fingers, toes, and nails. The square frame is the entrance and the exit where they go out. Become". (From Ishiuchi, "Old Nails" in this book).