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<p>Yasuhiro Ishimoto pointed his camera skyward to capture this unusual view of a Chicago street. Born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was 21—and incarcerated at Camp Amache in Colorado—when he first picked up a camera. At the end of World War II, the federal government resettled him in Chicago, where he joined the Fort Dearborn Camera Club and received mentorship from its leader, the Japanese American photographer Harry K. Shigeta. Ishimoto subsequently studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design, picking up their distinctive approaches to photographing Chicago.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1949
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.7 × 20.4 cm (8 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 30.9 × 25.3 cm (12 3/16 × 10 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Artist
Photography
Yasuhiro Ishimoto was a Japanese photographer who shaped the visual language of postwar documentary and architectural photography. Working primarily in black and white, he combined precise compositional geometry with an acute sensitivity to light and shadow, creating images that ranged from industrial landscapes to intimate street studies. His work bridged Japanese and American photographic traditions, influencing how modernist form was understood through the camera lens.
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- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- Year
- 1949
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.7 × 20.4 cm (8 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 30.9 × 25.3 cm (12 3/16 × 10 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1949-025676
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified