Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Jap.石 元 泰博, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, born June 14, 1921 in San Francisco, California, USA, † February 6, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan ) was a Japanese-American photographer.
Life
Ishimoto was born in California, where his parents lived as farmers. The family moved to Japan in 1924 in the home of the parents, Tosa prefecture Kōchi back. He received his degree at the Higher School of Agriculture in 1939 Kōchi and went back to the United States. There he began to study architecture at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, but he had to cancel due to his internment in 1942 after the start of the war with Japan. However, the study had time on his later interests in photographing big impact. During his stay until 1944 at the detention Amache in Colorado ( Granada Relocation Center officially called ), he learned photography.
Ishimoto returned to Chicago in 1948 and enrolled in the photography department of the Chicago Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus ) a, which in 1949 with the Illinois Institute of Technology merged. There he made his degree in 1952. During his studies he worked as a photographer and has already won several awards during that time, such as the Moholy -Nagy price he got even twice.
1953 Ishimoto returned to Japan and was commissioned by the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Katsura Villa in Kyoto. The band with black-and- white photos and texts by Walter Gropius and Kenzo Tange was published in the last decades in several languages and several editions. At the exhibition Family of Man, Edward Steichen had cared for and an exhibition catalog of 1955 in the New York Museum of Modern Art took part Ishimoto as well as exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960 and again at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961.
Between 1958 and 1961 lived Ishimoto in Chicago. After his return to Japan in the same year he took in 1969 to the Japanese citizenship. Over the preceding years he taught photography at the Kuwasawa Design School, the Tōkyō College of Photography and in the years 1966-1971 at the Zokei University Tokyo. He traveled to many countries in the world and dealt several times with buildings of traditional Japanese architecture, such as the Tō -ji Temple in Kyoto (also known under the name Kyo - ō Gokoku -ji), the Ise Shrine and again with the Katsura villa, built up over the then each elegant photo books.
His photographic estate bequeathed Ishimoto Art Museum in Kōchi.