This unique photo book overlaps two intimate realms: the "rooms" and "underwear" of 70 women living in cities such as Tokyo, Kyoto, and Fukuoka.
Miyashita Maki's camera is not aimed at models, but at "girls living ordinary lives." She carefully captures the natural moments of these girls relaxing in their underwear in their own rooms.
Not only are the rooms neatly arranged, but the spaces still show traces of daily life, the color and shape of the underwear chosen, the accessories and furniture that exude a sense of the person's personality... Individuality that cannot be imagined from the face alone emerges surprisingly clearly through the private landscape of the room and underwear.
Miyashita Maki's gaze is intimate yet not voyeuristic; it seems to capture the atmosphere of everyday life itself, which is striking.
A collection of honest and charming works that reveals the quiet stories hidden within everyday life.
[Title] Rooms and underwear
[Publisher] Shogakukan
[Publication date] June 20, 2000 (first edition)
[Number of pages] 154 pages
[Size] A5 deformation approx.
[Format] Softcover
[Title reading] Heyatoshitagi
[Author/editor, etc.] Maki Miyashita/Author,
[Printing] Yoshida Printing/Printing
[ISBN]
9784096813119
[Condition] Used [5] Average
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Maki Miyashita (1975-)
Born in 1975.
After graduating from the Department of Film and Media at Kyoto College of Art, he studied under photographer Kozo Kimura.
He won the Grand Prix at the 10th Guardian Garden "Hitotsubo Exhibition" and held a solo exhibition, "Room and Underwear," at the same gallery in 1998. He has since held solo exhibitions at galleries around the country and participated in numerous group exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, including "Private Room II" at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, and in New York, Israel, Australia, and Sweden.
In 2001, he studied abroad in New York as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs' overseas training program for emerging artists. He is currently based in Tokyo and works in a wide range of fields, from magazines, advertising, gravure, portraits to family photography.
She lives in Tokyo and is a mother of one child.
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