Hiroshima - Miyako Ishiuchi

ISHIUCHI, Miyako. 
Hiroshima. 
First edition. 8vo. 82pp with colour plates throughout. Paper wraps with obi. Texts in Japanese and English. Tokyo: Shueisha, 2008. 
Signed by Ishiuchi to the title page. 

Straight flat shots of clothing and personal items that were found in Hiroshima in the wake of the 1945 nuclear attack. A haunting piece, quite impossible to describe. The garments are part of the permanent holdings of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. An incredible elegiac work illuminating the textures of these individual possessions as a collective history.