YASUHIRO ISHIMOTO. DES LIGNES ET DES CORPS – Yasuhiro Ishimoto version anglaise

Ishimoto. Des lignes et des corps presents the emblematic series by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012), who combines the formal approach of Chicago’s New Bauhaus with the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. Designed in close collaboration with the Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center, this book accompanies the eponymous exhibition presented at the BAL, curated by Diane Dufour with Mei Asakura, director of the Archives.

This monograph allows us to rediscover the work of a photographer who was rarely published during his lifetime. The singularity of his vision and his work on the motif, which sometimes went as far as abstraction, made Ishimoto a key figure in the art world, shaking up the Japanese photographic scene in the 1960s. Widely regarded as an outsider by his peers, Ishimoto imported a formalist perspective to the Japanese photographic scene of the time. Street scenes, portraits of children dressed up for Halloween, billboards, building facades in working-class neighbourhoods: his images testify to his mastery of framing and his sensitive perception of textures and motifs.

Four leaflets featuring the photographer’s iconic series punctuate this publication. These include Chicago, Beach , in which the legs of beachgoers create a graphic, infinite composition; and Kyoto, Katsura, one of Ishimoto’s most emblematic series, which captures details of the Japanese villa – its refined structure, gardens and stone paths.

The book, which focuses on the first decades of Ishimoto’s career, includes an introduction by Diane Dufour and three critical essays by Agathe Cancellieri, Yasufumi Nakamori and Mei Asakura, analysing the artist’s influence in the various territories to which he is linked.

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