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of Excellence Award, 1978. Japanese government

awarded him Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon in

1983, Order of Cultural Merit in 1993, and Man of

Cultural Distinction in 1997. Lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Individual Exhibition

1953 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954 Takemiya Gallery, Tokyo
1960 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illionois
1961 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962 Chicago, Chicago, Nihonbashi Shirokiya Department
Store, Tokyo
1977 Mandala of Two Worlds, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1981 The Eleven-Faced Goddess of Mercy of Kokoku, Seibu
Otsu Hall, Otsu
1982 Chicago, ChicagoandSomeday, Somewhere, Photo
Gallery International, Tokyo
1983 Chicago, Chicago IIandYamanote-sen 29 (Yamanote-
Line 29), Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1984 Katsura: Space and Form, Seibu Otsu Hall, Otsu
1986 Machi-Hito – Katachi (City – People – Form), Photo
Gallery International, Tokyo
1988 HANA, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1989 KATSURA, Photo Gallery International, Tokyo
1990 The Photography of Yasuhiro Ishimoto: 1948–1989,
Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo
1992 Fallen Leaves and Crushed Cans, Photo Gallery Inter-
national, Tokyo
1994 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: KATSURA and Recent Works,
Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles,
France
1995 Recent Works: Never the SameandIse Shrine, Photo
Gallery International, Tokyo
1996 Joy of Color, Photo Gallery International, Shibaura
1996 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Remembrance of Things Present,
National Film Center, The National Museum of Mod-
ern Art, Tokyo
1997 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: The Chicago Years, Laurence
Miller Gallery, New York and, Photo Gallery Interna-
tional, Tokyo
1998 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Flow, Photo Gallery International,
Tokyo
1998 KATSURA, Photo Gallery International, Shibaura
1998 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: Chicago and Tokyo, Tokyo Metro-
politan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1999 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities, Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1999 Yasuhiro Ishimoto: The Mandalas of the Two Worlds at
the Kyoo Gokoku-ji, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Group Exhibitions

1953 Contemporary Photography—Japan and America, The
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1955 The Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956 Contemporary Photography—Japan and France, The
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1960, 1961, 1963Contemporary Japanese Photography, The
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1967 Photography in the 20thCentury, National Gallery of
Canada, Ottawa (toured Canada and United States,
1967–1973)
1974 New Japanese Photography, Museum of Modern Art,
New York

1977 The Photographer and the City, Museum of Contem-

porary Art, Chicago

1979 Japanese Photography Today and Its Origin, Galleria

d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (traveled to the Palazza Reale

Milan; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; and the Institute

for Contemporary Arts, London)

1980 The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Insti-

tute of Design, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois

1984 The Art of Photography: Past and Present, from the

collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, The National

Museum of Art, Osaka

1988 Eight Japanese Photographers, Photo Gallery Interna-

tional, Tokyo

1990 Tokyo: A City Perspective, Tokyo Metropolitan

Museum of Photography, Tokyo

1991 Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s,

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

1991 Photographs in Japan 1955–1965, Yamaguchi Prefec-

tural Museum, Yamaguchi

1991 SITE WORK: Architecture in Photography since Early

Modernism, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1995 Photography and The National Museum of Modern Art,

Tokyo 1953-1995, National Film Center, The National

Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1996 1953 Shedding Light on Art in Japan, Meguro Museum

of Art, Tokyo

1996 Together Again,Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois

1996 When Harry Met Aaron: Chicago Photography 1946–

1971 , The Museum of Contemporary Photography,

Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

1996 Modern Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art,

Yokohama

1997 City Images in Photography from the Museum Collec-

tion, National Film Center, The National Museum of

Modern Art, Tokyo

1998 Waterproof, EXPO ‘98, Lisbon

1999 The World and the Ephemeral, Recontres Internatio-

nales de la Photographie, Arles, France

Selected Works

‘‘untitled’’ [girl tied to tree], 1955

Aru Hi, Aru Tokoro (Someday, Somewhere), 1958

Chicago, Chicago, 1958

Chicago, Chicago 2, 1983

Katsura Villa, 1983

Ise Shrine, 1995

Further Reading

Crane, Susan, ed.Museums and Memory. Stanford, Califor-

nia: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Putzar, Edward.Japanese Photography 1945–1985. Tucson,

Arizona: Pacific West, 1987.

Westerbeck, Colin.Yasuhiro Ishimoto: a tale of two cities,

with Arata Isozaki and Fuminori Yuloe. Chicago, Illi-

nois: Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

Otsuji, K., and F. Yukoe.The Photography of Yasuhiro

Ishimoto. Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art, 1989.

Szarkowski, John, and S. Yamagishi.New Japanese Photo-

graphy. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974.

Ichikawa, Masanori, and Rei Masuda.Yasuhiro Ishimoto, re-

membrance of things present: 14 Feb–30 Mar. Tokyo: National

Film Center, the National Museum of Modern Art, 1996.

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