Ishimoto Yasuhiro
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© Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

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CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the series Composition
Datec. 1985, printed 1985
MediumSilver dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 11 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (29.8 × 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 16 15/16 in. (35.4 × 43 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist in memory of Ishimoto Shigeru
Object number2009.297
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionTrained at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (the “New Bauhaus”) in Chicago, founded by László Moholy-Nagy with an emphasis on experimental art-making, Yasuhiro Ishimoto made this photograph using color film and filters, rewinding the film and re-shooting the subject (here, a building) multiple times on the same negative frame. The result is an abstract image of the skyline he saw from his apartment window in downtown Tokyo. Because he did not know how the final image would appear when printed, his intuition and experience guided the composition. The final image invokes a sense of optical and kinetic wonder in the eyes of a viewer.
ProvenanceThe artist, Tokyo; given to MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom right corner in pencil "1642 / YI-A5"
bottom right below image in silver ink "Yas Ishimoto"

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