Bad Ass and Beauty - One Love by . First edition (2021). First impression. Large format paperback in new condition. No markings, this is a new book. Text in Japanese and English. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.

About Bad Ass and Beauty - One Love

Since the beginning of her career, Okinawa artist Mao Ishikawa has used her photography to depict the lives of people, their struggles as individuals in society, and the raw power of being alive. This publication – published to coincide with Ishikawa’s first solo exhibition at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (March 5 – June 6, 2021) – features photographs from all fifteen of her series as well as essays and interviews. The book reveals Ishikawa’s deep love that allows her to capture human history through images, open in all directions, like the ocean surrounding Okinawa. “She presents subjects as they are, without easily alienating them as abstractions of narrative or metaphor. She also avoids seeing the realities in front of her along an axis of opposition and relativism. Furthermore, she even transforms her own identiy in relation to that which she encounters.” — from Fumiko Nakamura’s essay “Akabanaa as a Beginning”

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