There are two Ishiuchi Miyakos. One who followed a relatively conventional path for a Japanese woman of her generation (born 1916) — marriage, children, some work outside the home to help support her family. The other Ishiuchi, her daughter, made herself into something of an appropriation and reinvention of the first.
In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan
Leah Ollman, LA Times, October 24, 2015