free-parking-blog: Miyako Ishiuchi – Hiroshima, 2008, c-prints of the belongings left behind by the
free-parking-blog: Miyako Ishiuchi – Hiroshima, 2008, c-prints of the belongings left behind by the victims of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. From Ishiuchi: These are objects irradiated by the great fireball that appeared suddenly one summer morning, and personal effects left behind by those who perished because of it. I catch my breath at their vivid hues and textures, surfacing from the long shadows cast by their extreme circumstance. They seem much too ordinary, the very stuff of daily life, to belong to an Atomic archive […] I found Hiroshima in the gentle, everyday textures surviving in the silhouette of a one-piece dress, worn, perhaps clandestinely, by an unknown woman, and in the deep folds of a gathered skirt, in a fabric woven of silken threads. -- source link