ISHIMOTO - Yasuhiro Ishimoto

From 19 June to 17 November 2024, LE BAL presented a remarkable figure in the history of Japanese photography, yet one who is little known in France: Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012). For the first time in Europe, the exhibition, organised in close collaboration with the Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center at the Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan, brought together 169 rare prints, most of them vintage and made by Ishimoto himself. The exhibition focused on the first decades of his work, between Chicago and Japan. A key figure in the 1950s and 1960s, he was considered ‘visually bilingual’ for his ability to combine the formal approach of the New Bauhaus with the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics.

To accompany the exhibition, L'Atelier EXB and LE BAL co-published the book Ishimoto, a 216-page survey of the photographer's work accompanied by previously unpublished texts by Diane Dufour, Agathe Cancellieri, Yasufumi Nakamori and Mei Asakura.

first edition

stock number: NB694