Yasuhiro ishimoto biography of williams

          Although he was born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was raised in Japan and returned to the United States in , when he planned to study agriculture in..

          Yasuhiro Ishimoto, the Photographer who Merged Japanese Sensibility with New Bauhaus

          Features - Art and Architecture

          Le BAL’s ‘Lines and Bodies’ explores the early decades of the often-overlooked Japanese-American photographer.

          Words by Siobhan O’Leary
          Image by Yasuhiro Ishimoto.

          Chicago, Beach, 1948-52.

          Born in San Francisco in , while his father was employed in the U.S., Ishimoto returned to Japan in and spent the rest of his childhood.

        1. Born in San Francisco in , while his father was employed in the U.S., Ishimoto returned to Japan in and spent the rest of his childhood.
        2. Born in San Francisco in to immigrant parents, Yasuhiro Ishimoto grew up in Japan and returned to California to attend college in In.
        3. Although he was born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was raised in Japan and returned to the United States in , when he planned to study agriculture in.
        4. "Like William Klein, Yasuhiro Ishimoto represented an influential link between Japanese and American photography, although from a different photographic.
        5. Born in in San Francisco, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, an American citizen, was raised in Japan and passed away in The year old returned to California.

          6. Courtesy of the artist and Le BAL.

          Traditional Japanese architecture and New Bauhaus formalism are two aesthetic worlds that are often kept at a distance imposed not only by geography.

          Politics and persecution forced the Bauhaus from its native Germany to Chicago in 1937. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour just four years later rendered cross pollination between the two cultures ever more complex. One photographer, however, became the incarnation of a new visual bilingualism that revealed innate similarities between the two worlds, proving the importance of immigration in bridging even the most disparate of cultures.

          Through a curation of original prints acros