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 20, 2010, the MFAH 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. For the last 50 years these photographs have been known only from the landmark 1960 book Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture, by architect Tange Kenzo with an introduction by Walter Gropius. For that publication, Tange rigorously