#yasuhiro ishimoto

[nobrashfestivity]

Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Flow of People, 1999 © Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center  

[thephotoregistry]

Moon-Viewing Platform seen from the Second Room, Katsura, 1954

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

[pinakotheca]

Scanned from Yasuhiro Ishimoto 1948-1989 retrospective photobook.

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Tokyo. 1965

[casadabiqueira]

Snow and car, Chicago

Yasuhiro Ishimoto, ca 1948-1952

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Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Chicago, Halloween, 1948-52

[yama-bato]

Katsura Imperial Villa (17th century)

Bruno Taut's visit to Japan in 1933. made it internationally famous. Bruno Taut's stay in Japan, when his friend Isaburo Ueno takes him to visit the imperial residence of Katsura.

"“Pure bare architecture. Touching-innocent like a child”, Taut defines it, fascinated by its “flock of geese in flight” arrangement, which represented for him “the free art of a free spirit”. The same freedom that reigns in the modernist movement. At Katsura rikyū "every element – house, water, dock for boats, tree, stone – has a life of its own, like a good society" and "The whole complex, from whichever side it was observed, followed in each of its parts and in an absolutely elastic way the purpose that each of them, no less than the whole, was destined to fulfill, the normal daily utility or representation, or the expression of a high philosophical spirituality. The marvelous thing was that all three of these purposes were so intimately connected in one unity, that no boundaries were perceived between one and the other."

(https://www.nan-ban.com/en/chronicles/the-birth-of-modern-japan-in-ten-masterpieces-i-katsura-imperial-villa)

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Tokyo Town, Photo by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 1963-70