Gallery Past Rays, Yokohama, 2009 Private Collection, Tokyo
Exhibited
絶唱、横須賀ストーリー Yokosuka Story, Nikon Salon in Ginza, Tokyo, 26 April - 1 May, 1977, other prints Hiroshima/Yokosuka: Miyako Ishiuchi, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, 5 October – 11 December 1999, another Ishiuchi Miyako Mother's 2000-2005: Traces of the Future, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 12 June – 6 November 2005, another Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows, Getty, Los Angeles, 6 October 2015 – 21 February 2016, another
Literature
Ishiuchi, 絶唱、横須賀ストーリー Yokosuka Story, Tokyo: Shashin Tsushinsha, 1979 Ishiuchi, Mother's 2000-2005: Traces of the Future, Tokyo: The Japan Foundation, 2005, p. 71 Ishiuchi, Sweet Home Yokosuka 1976-1980, New York: PPP Editions, 2010, n.p. Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows, Los Angeles: Getty, 2015, pl. 14, pp. 46-47 Ishiuchi Miyako: Grain & Image, Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2017, pp. 228-229
Catalogue Essay
In this bold composition, the windswept grasses fill more than half of the frame. Ishiuchi’s preferred language of grain and the repeated curves of the grasses create an emotionally charged photograph, enabling the viewer to feel the power of the wind and to hear the rustling of the grasses. One of the most important photographs from the project, Yokosuka Story #5 was selected as the image to promote Ishiuchi’s 1977 inaugural Yokosuka Story exhibition.
1976 Gelatin silver print, printed 1977. Image: 43.2 x 53.5 cm (17 x 21 1/8 in.) Sheet: 45.5 x 55.5 cm (17 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.) Signed in rōmaji, titled in Japanese and dated in ink on the verso; signed, titled and dated in ink on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work
This work is one of the prints made by Ishiuchi for the purpose of her first solo show Yokosuka Story at Nikon Gallery, Tokyo; the exhibited print is held at Yokohama Museum of Art. As of this writing, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Yokohama Museum of Art each holds an early print, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York holds a later print. Early prints of Yokosuka Story are exceedingly rare.
Please note that the artist’s name appears in Japanese order with the surname before the forename.
Estimate £15,000 - 25,000 ‡
Sold for £27,500
Contact Specialist Genevieve Janvrin
Co-Head of Department, Photographs Yuka Yamaji
Co-Head of Department, Photographs