Main entry:

Westerbeck, Colin.

Title & Author:

Yasuhiro Ishimoto : a tale of two cities / Colin Westerbeck, with contributions by Arata Isozaki and Fuminori Yokoe.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, ©1999.

Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Exhibition organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, May 8 to September 12, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / James N. Wood -- Acknowledgments / Colin Westerbeck -- Plates: The Two Cities -- The Ten Foot Square Hut / Colin Westerbeck -- Plates: Chicago -- The Call of the Ocean of Memory / Fuminori Yokoe -- Yasuhiro Ishimoto's "Katsura": A New Mechanism of Reading / Arata Isozaki -- Plates: Tokyo.

Summary:

Although he is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Tokyo for more than 45 years, Yasuhiro Ishimoto received his art education in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied under Harry Callahan. Ishimoto's photographs of Chicago document a period of profound social, political, and racial change and record the character of the city from its lakefront beaches and downtown streets to its South Side neighborhoods. Ishimoto returned to Japan in 1953 and began a documentation of Tokyo. In his work, Tokyo and Chicago have become sister cities in the personal vision of an artist whose patience as a photographer and tenacity of observation have enabled him to produce the extraordinary body of work evident in such books as Someday Somewhere and Chicago, Chicago. He has also produced two books on Katsura villa, another on flowers, and several others on Japanese subjects.
Large as is the range of Ishimoto's tale of two cities, in recent years another side of his sensibility has come to the fore in very subtle studies of rotting leaves, footprints in snow, cloud formations, and wind-ruffled water at his feet. Now 77, Ishimoto is revealing a meditative dimension that has brought him recognition as a "Person of Cultural Distinction" in Japan and serious regard worldwide for his artistic achievements.

ISBN:

0865591709 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
9780865591707 (softcover ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012 Exhibitions.
Ishimoto, Yasuhiro.
Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012 Expositions.
Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012
Ishimoto, Yasuhiro 1921-2012
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
Fotografie
Tokio
Chicago
Ausstellung
Foto's.
Chicago (Ill., 1999)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Ishimoto, Yasuhiro, 1921-2012.
Isozaki, Arata.
Yokoe, Fuminori.
Art Institute of Chicago.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 202340
Call No.: TR140.I79 Y3 1999
Status: Available