Yasuhiro ishimoto biography meaning
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元泰博, Ishimoto Yasuhiro, b.
Yasuhiro ishimoto biography meaning
San Francisco, 1921–2012) was a Japanese-American photographer. Photographer and critic Minor White called Ishimoto a “visual bilinguist,” due to Ishimoto’s development of a subtle syncretism of Eastern and Western aesthetic sensibilities in capturing both fleeting human moments and stolid urban architecture during his long career.
Ishimoto was born in California and raised in his parents’ hometown in Kōchi Prefecture in Japan.
After graduating from high school in Japan in 1939, he returned to California to work and study in agriculture until he and his family were subjected to internment in the remote plains of Colorado at the Amache Internment Camp from 1942 to 1944.
During this period of internment, Ishimoto began to learn photographic techniques from fellow Japanese-Americans. He returned to Chicago in 1944 after his release, briefly studying architecture at Northwestern University in 1946&mdas