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          Yasuhiro Ishimoto signed his name "Yas Ishimoto"....

          Yasuhiro Ishimoto

          Japanese-American photographer

          Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元 泰博, Ishimoto Yasuhiro[1], June 14, 1921 – February 6, 2012) was a Japanese-American photographer.

          His decades-long career explored expressions of modernist design in traditional architecture, the quiet anxieties of urban life in Tokyo and Chicago, and the camera's capacity to bring out the abstract in the everyday and seemingly concrete fixtures of the world around him.

          Although he was born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was raised in Japan and returned to the United States in , when he planned to study agriculture in.

        1. Although he was born in San Francisco, Ishimoto was raised in Japan and returned to the United States in , when he planned to study agriculture in.
        2. Born in San Francisco in , while his father was employed in the U.S., Ishimoto returned to Japan in and spent the rest of his childhood.
        3. Yasuhiro Ishimoto signed his name "Yas Ishimoto".
        4. Yasuhiro Ishimoto is an important figure in the cross-pollination of photographic ideas and styles between American and Japanese photography.
        5. Yasuhiro Ishimoto (–) was a renowned Japanese-American photographer whose work significantly influenced both American and Japanese.

          6. Born in the United States and raised in Japan, Ishimoto returned to the States as a young adult as the Second World War began to escalate, and was soon after sent to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado after the signing of Executive Order 9066.

          After the war, he studied photography at the Bauhaus-inspired Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and established a robust photographic practice between the United States and Japan.

          As a transnational interlocutor between Japanese and American art