@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:02000226,
 author = {IGARASHI, Yoshikuni},
 journal = {Japan Review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {The photographer Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima series features colorful and alluring photos of items of clothing and artifacts that used to belong to hibakusha and are now stored at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. In response to criticism that she has aesthetized Hiroshima, Ishiuchi defends her artistic practice by casting it as resistance to a politicized history that has long imprisoned the city in images of death and destruction, which conceals the colors and beauty-the feminine quality-that once existed there.
Despite her qualms with History, her work is framed by postwar representations of Hiroshima that have highlighted the inhumane effects of the atomic bomb. Through referencing these tragic images her Hiroshima photos express deep emotions. However, her aesthetic practice effectively silences the personal histories of the hibakusha these objects represent, relegating them to a generic story devoid of individuality.
Situating Hiroshima within Ishiuchi’s career trajectory, this article examines the ways in which Ishiuchi produced a beautiful personal narrative through photography and writing but has struggled to extend that to a city with which she has no personal connections. More recent works from the Hiroshima series, which are less colorful and prominently display the traces of bodily injuries, suggest that she has grown uneasy with the privileged aesthetic of her original position and is now willing to embrace Hiroshima’s dark history., Early Access Publishing date: 2024/06/28},
 title = {Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction ? Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan},
 year = {2024}
}