A Body in Fukushima (Hardcover)

On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in a triple disaster known as 3.11. On five separate journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple locations across Fukushima, creating 200 transformative color photographs that document the irradiated landscape, accentuated by Eiko's poses depicting both the sorrow and dignity of the land. The book also includes essays and commentary reflecting on art, disaster, and grief. "By placing my body in these places, I thought of the generations of people who used to live there. Now desolate, only time and wind continue to move." - Eiko Otake "This book is of people who had lived in Fukushima and had to leave, and of people who had died there before the disaster. This book is of Fukushima, of a dancer, of a performance, of a gaze. A gaze of a dancer, of time, and of a photographer. And this book is of you, your gaze. When you take time to look at and look into each photograph, we hope it becomes a performance for you and with you, of Fukushima. By witnessing events and places, we actually change them and ourselves in ways that may not always be apparent but are important. Through photographing Eiko in these places in Fukushima, we are witnessing not only her and the places themselves, but the people whose lives crossed with those places." - William Johnston

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2021
Authors:	Eiko Otake • William Johnston
Dimensions:	286 x 222 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-8026-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic portraits Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
LSN:	0-8195-8026-0
Barcode:	9780819580269

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