Architecture Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro to be Shown in Houston

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HOUSTON, TX.- Photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential figures in the development of postwar Japanese photography. Among his most celebrated bodies of work are the photographs he took during 1953-54 of the legendary 17th-century Imperial villa of Katsura, in Kyoto, which infuse the images of the iconic structure with a modernist Bauhaus esthetic. Beginning June 30, 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will exhibit 70 of these photographs—presenting the images, for the first time, un-cropped and as Ishimoto had originally intended for them to be seen.