Publisher/西武美術館

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A collection of works by Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012), ``Sensitivity and Vision 1948-1989 Yasuhiro Ishimoto Photo Exhibition''. The mainstream of photography in the 1940s and 1950s was "journalism." During this interwar period, there were basically a lot of ``humanity'' works, from war and news journalism by Yonosuke Natori and others to documentaries with a lot of reporting elements, led by Ken Domon and Ihei Kimura. However, I can imagine that Yasuhiro Ishimoto, who returned to Japan during this time, had a considerable impact. Of course, there were few students who received a design education like Bauhaus, and there were not many photographers with a sharp aesthetic sense who could capture their subjects in a figurative manner, so in the 1950s, Katsura Imperial Villa... His first book ``A Certain Day in a Certain Place'' left a great impression on me. This is a collection of catalog works published during the exhibition held from 1989 to 1990, and includes works by ``Chicago'' and ``Japan,'' as well as texts by Kiyoshi Otsuji, Fuminori Yokoe, and others.