Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Chicago

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Artist Ishimoto Yasuhiro(Japanese, 1921–2012)Japanese, 1921–2012

CultureJapanese

Titles

Chicago

Date1959–1961

PlaceChicago, Illinois, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 11 1/16 in. (20.2 × 28.1 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Shigeru

Object number99.367

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIshimoto’s photography reveals the various currents of influence that he found as a student at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design (also known as the New Bauhaus): avant-garde experimentation characteristic of the Bauhaus; objective documentation associated with the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity); and photography as a personal medium to understand and reveal one’s relationship to everyday life. This last approach, imparted by his teacher Harry Callahan, was the most influential on the photographs that he shot in Chicago as a student and again later, when this photograph was made. Persistent and keenly observant, Ishimoto chased these sheets of newspaper through Grant Park for more than an hour and photographed them at a moment when they seemed strangely animate.
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Illegible pencil marks on verso, upper left.

Signed in pencil, lower right below image: "Yas Ishimoto"

Embossed circular stamp, lower left below image: "PRINTED BY YAS ISHIMOTO"

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