MIYAKO ISHIUCHI

Miyako Ishiuchi was born in 1947 in Gunma Prefecture. And grew up in
Yokosuka. She was a weaving major at Tama Art University but left before
completing her degree in 1970. She is now recognized as one of Japan¹s
pioneering woman photographers. A prize-winning photographer since she began practicing her craft in the 1970s, Miyako Ishiuchi has had an interest in body parts that began to blossom in the late 1980s. Her body of work
'Nails' is of men's fingers and toenails and denotes her interest in the way
that the bitten and mangled nails express the psychological state of her
male subjects drawn from all races and walks of life.

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