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About the Japanese-American photographer Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO (1921-2012)
Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO was born in California and his family moved to Japan, his parents' hometown, in 1924. He returned to the United States in 1939, where he began studying architecture in Chicago. After his internment at the beginning of the war with Japan, he returned to Chicago to study footgraphy. He graduated from the Chicago Institute of Design (formerly New Bauhaus) in 1952. In 1953, he returned to Japan and was commissioned by the New York Museum of Modern Art to photograph the Katsura Villa in Kyōto. Between 1958 and 1961, he lived in Chicago again, before returning to Japan, where he taught photography at the Kuwasawa Design School, the Tōkyō College of Photography and, from 1966 to 1971, at Zōkei University in Tokyo. During his travels to many countries around the world, he focused on buildings of traditional Japanese architecture, about which he published magnificent illustrated books.
Photo books by and with works by Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO
- 'The Family of Man'-Katalog (1955, 2013); 'Someday, Somewhere' (1958); 'Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture' (1960, 1972); 'Eros and Cosmos in Mandala: The Mandalas of the Two Worlds at the Kyō-ō Gokoku-ji' (1978); 'Chicago, Chicago' (1983); 'Arata Isozaki: Katsura Villa: Space and Form.' (1987); 'Hana' (1988, 1989); 'Arata Isozaki. Works 30' (1992); 'Ise Jingū' (1995); 'A Tale of Two Cities' (1999); 'Composition' (2008); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' (2009, von Ryuichi KANEKO und Ivan Vartanian); 'Katsura. Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture' (2011); 'Hiroshi Naito. Space, Spirits' (2013); 'Fotografen A-Z' (2015, 2022); 'The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age' (2017); 'Autophoto: Cars & Photography, 1900 to Now' (2017); 'Someday, Chicago' (2018); 'Ishikawa' (2024);
Ausstellungen (eine Auswahl)
- 1955: The Family of Man', Museum of Modern Art, New York;
1969: 'A Tale of Two Cities', Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA;
2000–2001: 'Traces of Memory', Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;