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Yasuhiro Ishimoto    (Japanese/American, 1921)

 Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Chicago (Photographs) h: 14 x w: 11 in / h: 35.6 x w: 27.9 cm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Chicago circa 1953
 
 Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Chicago (Photographs) h: 14 x w: 11 in / h: 35.6 x w: 27.9 cm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Chicago circa 1950
 
 Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Chicago (Photographs) h: 14 x w: 11 in / h: 35.6 x w: 27.9 cm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Chicago circa 1950
 
 Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Katsura, The Old Shoin viewed from the North-East (Photographs) h: 53.5 x w: 43.5 in / h: 135.9 x w: 110.5 cm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Katsura, The Old Shoin viewed from the North-East 1982
 
 Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Untitled, from the series The Joy of Color (Photographs) h: 20 x w: 16 in / h: 50.8 x w: 40.6 cm
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Untitled, from the series The Joy of Color
 
 

Biography
1921 Born in San Francisco and raised inTosa in Kochi Prefecture, Japan
1939 Moved back to United States
1940 Studied agriculture at University of California until 1942
1946 Studied architecture at Northwestern University and took classes under Harry Shigeta
1948 Studied photography at the Institute of Design under Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Gordon Coster; Won the Moholy-Nagy prize twice
1952 Graduated from Institute of Design
1958 Received Minolta fellowship
1996 Awarded Japan’s Man of Cultural Distinction

Exhibitions
2007 Couples at Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
2002 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Selected Work at Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
1999 Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago
1996 National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
1989 Retrospective at Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo
1974 New Japanese Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
1960 Survey of work at the Art Institute of Chicago
1955 Family of Man exhibition and catalogue at Museum of Modern Art
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