- Untitled
- from the series Composition
Sheet: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
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Trained at the Institute of Design in Chicago—founded in 1937 as The New Bauhaus—Ishimoto Yasuhiro made photographs building off of a legacy of formal experimentation and socially engaged design practices. While Ishimoto spent much of his life making more conventional street photography, he created these boldly colorful and kaleidoscopic images late in his career. With his carefully trained eye, Ishimoto pushed the expressive possibilities of the camera, making multiple exposures on a single negative. The resulting prints rely on elements of chance, pattern, and fragmentation to create dynamic and lyrical compositions.
ProvenanceThe artist, Tokyo; given to MFAH, 2009.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Ways of Seeing: Photography of Ishimoto Yasuhiro," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, May 5 - September 13, 2009.
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