as informing his sensitivity towards the plight of disenfranchised communities, and his steadfast desire to immerse himself in the nooks and crannies of the urban landscape. Many of Ishimoto's early photos in Chicago focus on children across varied neighborhoods, capturing the reckless vigor of their play, their urban stomping grounds, and their unflinching, and at times impenetrable gazes towards the camera with a frankness that was neither sentimental nor sardonic. In 1958, he published his first photobook, Someday Somewhere, which featured images of Chicago and Tokyo in conversation with one another, using strategies of arrangement and seriality that could be traced back to his training at the Institute of Design. Second stay in Chicago (1958-61) In December of 1958, Ishimoto, whose Japanese visa was close to expiry, returned to Chicago with his wife Shigeru on a fellowship from camera maker Chiyoda Kōgaku Kōgyō (now Konica Minolta). Though they had initially planned on staying for a year, they extended their stay to three years and settled in the North Side, during which Ishimoto roamed the streets of the city, taking over 60,000 photographs. The works from this period were featured in a number of Japanese magazines and exhibited at the Nihonbashi Shirokiya department store in 1962. In 1969, they were published by Bijustsu shuppan-sha as Chicago, Chicago, featuring accompanying texts written by Harry Callahan and Shūzō Takiguchi. The book design was conducted by Yūsaku Kamekura, and the 210 images were printed using a duotone relief process, which provided a richness to the dark tones and shadows captured in his street shots. The book captures the radical urban upheaval taking place in the late 1950s and early 60s in Chicago, with images that juxtapose the demolition of pre-war buildings against new modernist high-rises and public housing projects, and sensitively capture the intricacies of racial and political tensions as they manifested in public space . Ishimoto also immersed himself in allies and parades, and captured a dynamic image of Martin Luther King Jr. amidst an impassioned speech at a 1960 convention, flanked by a row of floating posters protesting against segregation in schools. Ishimoto was also the subject of a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960. Color photography Though perhaps best known for his black-and-white work in Katsura and Chicago, Chicago, Ishimoto had begun experimenting with color photography since his days at the ID, and he began to utilize