Yasuhiro Ishimoto

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Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1962)

Yasuhiro Ishimoto ( Japanese 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 to their parents' hometown, Tosa in Kōchi Prefecture . He graduated from Kōchi High School of Agriculture and went back to the United States in 1939. There he began to study architecture at Northwestern University in Chicago , Illinois , which he had to abandon in 1942 because of his internment after the beginning of the war with Japan . However, his student days had a great influence on his later interests in photography. During his stay until 1944 at the Amache internment camp in Colorado (officially called Granada Relocation Center ) he learned photography.

Ishimoto returned to Chicago and enrolled in the photography department of the Chicago Institute of Design (formerly New Bauhaus ) in 1948 , which merged with the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949 . He graduated there in 1952. During his student days he worked as a photographer and already won various prizes during this time, such as the Moholy Nagy Prize , which he even received twice.

In 1953 Ishimoto returned to Japan and photographed the Katsura Villa in Kyoto on behalf of the New York Museum of Modern Art . The volume with black and white photos and texts by Walter Gropius and Tange Kenzō has been published in several languages ​​and in several editions over the past few decades. Ishimoto took part in the exhibition The Family of Man , which Edward Steichen had supervised, and an exhibition with a catalog from 1955 in the New York Museum of Modern Art, as well as in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960 and again in the Museum of Modern Art in 1961 .

Ishimoto lived in Chicago between 1958 and 1961. After returning to Japan in the same year, he took Japanese citizenship in 1969. In the previous years he taught photography at the Kuwasawa Design School , the Tōkyō College of Photography and from 1966 to 1971 at the Zōkei University of Tokyo . He traveled to many countries around the world and dealt several times with buildings of traditional Japanese architecture, for example with the Tō-ji temple in Kyoto (also known as Kyō-ō Gokoku-ji ), the Ise shrine and again with the Katsura-Villa , each of which resulted in magnificent illustrated books.

Ishimoto died of complications from a stroke . Ishimoto bequeathed his photographic estate to the art museum in the city of Kōchi .

Exhibitions

Literature (selection)

  • 1960: together with Walter Gropius and Tange Kenzō: Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture . Zōkeisha, Tokyo / Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 1960, 2nd edition: Yale University Press, New Haven 1972. ISBN 0-300-01599-2 .
  • 1969: Chicago, Chicago . Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo, 2nd edition: Japan Publications, Tokyo 1983. ISBN 0-87040-553-5 .
  • 1978: Eros and Cosmos in Mandala: The Mandalas of the Two Worlds at the Kyō-ō Gokoku-ji . Seibu Museum of Art , Tokyo
  • 1987: with Arata Isozaki : Katsura Villa: Space and Form . Rizzoli, New York, ISBN 0-8478-0783-5 .
  • 1988: Hana: Ishimoto Yasuhiro Shadinshū . Kyūryūdō, Tōkyō, ISBN 4-7630-8804-1 .
    • 1989: english: Hana / Yasuhiro Ishimoto . Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California, USA, ISBN 0-877016682 .
  • 1995: Ise-jingū , (Ise shrine). Kaboshikikaisha Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo ISBN 4-00-008061-X .
  • 2011: with Yasufumi Nakamori Text: Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture , Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16333-9 .

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

Commons : Yasuhiro Ishimoto  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. ↑ Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro has died. art-in-berlin, accessed on February 6, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Ishimoto, Yasuhiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 石元泰 博 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Japanese photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2012
Place of death Tokyo , Japan