Izumi Miyazaki Me and Me

Izumi Miyazaki's "Me and Me" is an early 대표작 that compiles self-portrait works that garnered significant attention online. Comprised mainly of images published on Tumblr, this book playfully blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy by inserting the artist's own body into everyday scenes.

Her signature bob-haired figure floats, splits, multiplies, and at times melts into the space itself, whether on street corners, indoors, or in ordinary living spaces. This expression, which coexists with humor and unease, loveliness and disturbance, goes beyond mere self-portraits to vividly reflect the multiplicity and uncertainty of the "self."

Miyazaki's works, with their sensibilities unique to the digital native generation and the intensity of images disseminated in the age of social media, have been highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally, and featured in numerous media outlets. This book not only conveys the dynamism of a new photographic expression that spread from the internet to the world, but also questions the nature of self-image in contemporary society.

[Title] Me and Me
[Publisher] Seigensha
[Publication Date] April 13, 2018
[Page Count] 88 pages
[Size] Approx. 210*298mm / 525g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title Reading] WATASHI TO WATASHI
[Author/Editor] Izumi Miyazaki/Author, Yuma Harada/Design, Kanae Hirakawa (UMA/design farm)/Design
[Printing] Sun M Color/Printing & Binding
[ISBN] 9784861526701
[Condition] Used 【7】Good (Slight damage to dust jacket edge)
[Accessories] Dust jacket
[Featured In] 『IMA』Vol.24 / Amanaimages
[Related Exhibition] 2018 "UP to ME" ASPHODEL (Kyoto)

Izumi Miyazaki (1994-)

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1994, Izumi Miyazaki is a photographer.
While studying at Musashino Art University's Department of Imaging Arts, she gained international attention by publishing self-portrait works featuring herself as the subject on Tumblr. She is known for her surreal and ironic style, which involves her body floating, splitting, and multiplying within everyday scenes.

In 2013, she was selected as a finalist for the 9th "1_WALL" photography competition. While still a student, she also worked on image visuals for the fashion brand otonacium. After graduating from Musashino Art University in 2016, she held a solo exhibition "stand-in" at Art-U room. In the same year, she held a solo exhibition "Cute & Cruel" at Wild Project Gallery in Luxembourg, and participated in the group exhibition "GIVE ME YESTERDAY" organized by Fondazione Prada from 2016 to 2017.

In 2018, she was selected for the main program of KYOTOGRAPHIE Kyoto International Photography Festival, and is highly acclaimed as an artist who represents a new generation of photographic expression. She continues to attract international attention as an artist who playfully re-examines self-image in the post-SNS era and contemporary bodily sensations.

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