Tokyo yasuhiro ishimoto biography
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Japanese-American photographer
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元 泰博, Ishimoto Yasuhiro[1], June 14, 1921 – February 6, 2012) was a Japanese-American photographer.
Tokyo yasuhiro ishimoto biography
His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the everyday and seemingly concrete fixtures of the world around him.
Born in the United States and raised in Japan, Ishimoto returned to the States as a young adult as the Second World War began to escalate, and was soon after sent to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado after the signing of Executive Order 9066.
After the war, he studied photography at the Bauhaus-inspired Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and established a robust photographic practice between the United States and Japan.
As a transnational interlocutor between Japanese and American art