Ishimoto Yasuhiro: Centennial Selections

In celebration of what would have been the late photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro's one hundredth birthday this year, NOMA presents a selection of his works from the collection. 

American-born but raised in Japan, Yasuhiro's story as a photographer begins at the Grenada Relocation Center in Colorado, one of ten sites where the United States government incarcerated over 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II. It was there at Grenada that he began using a camera for the first time. After the war, he studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago before emigrating permanently to Tokyo in 1961.

He is best remembered for his street photography, and this exhibit highlights two eras of his work in Chicago: the first when he was a student and the second almost a decade later.

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