Chicago, Chicago (SIGNED)

Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Chicago, Chicago (SIGNED)

Photographs: Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Text: Harry Callahan, Shuzo Takiguchi & Yusaku Kamekura

Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppansha

224 pages

Pictures: 208

Year: 1969

Comments: Hardcover housed in a slipcase with obi, 27 x 27,8 cm. First edition. Design by Yusaku Kamekura. Very well-printed black-and-white reproductions, similar to baryta prints. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1 p. 289 ; Auer Book, p.495. Copy in excellent condition with the rare obi. Signed by Yasuhiro Ishimoto.

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