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Untitled

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1949/50, printed later

Artist:

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Japanese, born United States, 1921–2012

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Title

Untitled

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1949–1950

Medium

Gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg

Reference Number

1992.856

Extended information about this artwork

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