About this artwork
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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- Japan (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1949–1950
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image: 20.7 × 20.4 cm (8 3/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Paper: 30.9 × 25.3 cm (12 3/16 × 10 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
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Reference Number
- 1992.856
Extended information about this artwork
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