Ishimoto and the Japanese photographic scene of the 1950s - By Diane Dufour At the beginning of the 1950s, the strangeness of Ishimoto's images, devoid of journalistic aim, collided head-on with social realism, the dominant mode of post-war Japanese photography. The shock produced by Ishimoto's images on his contemporaries is perceptible in this testimony from Ikko Tanaka (artistic director of Approach magazine): "Who could have forgotten the considerable impact that…
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