Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Someday Somewhere - 1958

Yasuhiro Ishimoto (Japanese American, 1921- ) was born in San Francisco and raised in Kochi City, Japan. In 1939, due to concerns of being drafted, he returned to the U.S. where he studied agriculture at the University of California (1940-42). He moved to Chicago in 1944 and began to study architecture at Northwestern University in 1946 he met photographer Harry Shigeta and took up photography seriously. Two years later Ishimoto transferred to the Institute of Design (now IIT) where he studied with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Gordon Coster (1948-52). In 1961 he returned to Japan (Tokyo), where he has lived ever since. Ishimoto showed his devotion to his adopted city, Chicago, in his book, Chicago, Chicago (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1969). This book is often regarded as Ishimoto's most personal statement—his bold use of contrast, the design of the frame, and the influence of his studies in architecture define the book.. Ishimoto has published many books and exhibited widely throughout Japan and the U.S. In 1999 he was the subject of a career retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. First edition