ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Katsura Imperial Villa, Aaron Siskind, Edward Steichen
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But it was an indication of the growing strength of the new generation of photographers. These artists, in contrast to natori, with his fixed belief that photojournalism should accurately reproduce reality, emphasized the autonomous will of the photographer and sought to organize the image freely. They began with the same reality, but they were not confined within the existing framework of the story instead, they gave the image its independence and pursued the developing possibilities in a variety of forms. One of the developments that led to the emergence of the image generation was the return from the united states of ishimoto yasuhiro. Born in san francisco but raised in japan, ishimoto had returned to the. States before the war and in 1948 entered the photography department of the chicago institute of design (later incorporated into the illinois. Institute of technology) where he studied with harry callahan and aaron siskind.