Chicago, Chicago

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Chicago, Chicago

Photographs: Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Text: Harry Callahan, Shuzo Takiguchi & Yusaku Kamekura

Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppansha

224 pages

Pictures: 208

Year: 1969

Comments: Hardcover in a slipcase,the rare obi is missing, 270 x 278 mm. First edition, 1969. Design by Yusaku Kamekura. Some wear on sliplcase but in very good condition. Black & white reproductions very well printed. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1 p. 289 ; Auer Book, p.495.

Yasuhiro Ishimoto spent his time between 1960 and 1962 photographing Chicago. This was an immense amount of film, from which he selected 1000 shots and printed them, six hundred chosen himself, and three hundred more with the assistance of the photographer Kiyoshi Otsuji.

This book is the freezing of instants of time by the American Ishimoto, looking back with sorrow upon the Chicago of his years of maturing, and that this volume should be brought to completion is, I believe, a dramatic event for the Japanese people.

Yusaku Kamekura