Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako at the Getty

“Yokosuka Story #58” (1976-77), photo by Ishiuchi Miyako. Yokohama Museum of Art. ⓒIshiuchi Miyako “Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows,” or Darkness, Darkness, Hear My Plea Although its recovery and growth has been astonishing, Japan after World War II was largely in ruin. Born in 1947, when the gray pall of defeat had still not dispersed, Ishiuchi Miyako grew up to become one of the country’s most notable photographers. Yet, in many ways, the effects of those turbulent early years have never left her. Through February 21 more than 120 of her works are on display at the J. Paul Getty Museum, which also acquired some of her images in 2009 and 2010, and now owns 37 altogether. Ishiuchi grew up in Yokosuka, where the United States has maintained a military base since 1945. Not surprisingly, as a girl and as a young woman she carried ambivalent feelings about the base, the red light district on the outskirts of it, and something of a resentment over the American presence. In the latter 1960s, student protests broke out in Tokyo as they did in Paris, Washington, D.C., and other global cities. It was the time of organized anti-war movements, largely against perceived American imperialism…

Read this story on easyreadernews.com