Untitled
1949/50, printed later
Yasuhiro Ishimoto Japanese, born United States, 1921–2012
Japan
Yasuhiro Ishimoto pointed his camera skyward to capture this unusual view of a Chicago street. Born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was 21—and incarcerated at Camp Amache in Colorado—when he first picked up a camera. At the end of World War II, the federal government resettled him in Chicago, where he joined the Fort Dearborn Camera Club and received mentorship from its leader, the Japanese American photographer Harry K. Shigeta. Ishimoto subsequently studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design, picking up their distinctive approaches to photographing Chicago.
Gelatin silver print