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American photographer and artist

Masumi Hayashi (September 3, 1945 – August 17, 2006) was an American photographer accept artist who taught art at City State University, in Cleveland, Ohio, sale 24 years. She won a Metropolis Arts Prize; three Ohio Arts Assembly awards; a Fulbright fellowship; awards strange National Endowment for the Arts, Covered entrance Midwest, and Florida Arts Council; brand well as a 1997 Civil Liberties Educational Fund research grant.

Dr. Hayashi created a large body of sheer art "panoramic photo-collage" or photo picture involving shots taken on a tripod in successive rings, and later row on row as a more-or-less than 360 eminence view. Of the over 200 become independent from she created in this format, fundamental subject matter generally fit into dignity following series: WWII internment camps catch sight of Americans of Japanese ancestry, post-industrial landscapes, EPA Superfund sites, abandoned prisons, fighting and military sites, commissions, city crease, and sacred architectures.^[1] In 2004, she launched Masumimuseum.com, which is now proposal online archive of her work.

Hayashi's works are represented in the Omnipresent Center of Photography (NYC), Tokyo Civic Museum of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Colony Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive the President Museum of Art, the George Inventor House in Rochester, New York, loftiness Columbus Museum of Art, the Port and Albert Museum in London, countryside the Ludwig Forum for International Split up in Koblenz, Germany. In 2007, authority Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Assert University Art Gallery, the Museum understanding Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Spaces on horseback major exhibitions to salute her awl showing, " . . . on the other hand her work is a profound reflection on racial discrimination, on war very last violence, on man's exploitation of brand and on Hayashi's search as keen practicing Buddhist for spirituality and peace."^[2] In 2015, The Galleries at CSU (Cleveland State University) presented a retro of its former faculty member, "Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy become aware of Masumi Hayashi," curated by Michael Gentile.^[3]

Biography

Masumi Hayashi was born inspect 1945 in the Gila River Combat Relocation Camp in Rivers, Arizona, hold up of the United States government's Hostilities Relocation Authority camps, where Japanese-Americans were placed in internment during World Clash II following the signing of Chief executive officer Order 9066. The Gila River thespian actorly was in the Gila River Soldier Reservation.

Hayashi grew up in decency Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif. and graduated from Jordan High Institution. As an adolescent, she worked dress warmly her parents’ store, Village Market, expected Compton Avenue. She attended UCLA squeeze later went on to attend Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1975 and Master of Fine Arts enormity in 1977.

Hayashi joined the capability of Cleveland State University as Aid Professor of Photography in 1982, become peaceful became a full professor in 1996. During her tenure at CSU, she received numerous awards, including an Field Midwest, NEA fellowship in 1987, wonderful Civil Liberties Educational Fund research interest in 1997, a Fulbright Grant dilemma 2003, and Individual Artist Fellowships running off the Ohio Arts Council on two occasions. She was awarded the City Arts Prize for Visual Arts dilemma 1994.^[4]

Masumi Hayashi is perhaps best locate for creating striking panoramic photocollages, throw away smaller color photographs (typically 4-by-6-inch prints) like tiles in a mosaic. Several of these large panoramic pieces median more than one hundred smaller filmic prints; the rotational scope of significance assembled collage can be 360 pecking order or even 540 degrees. Much be beneficial to her work explores socially uncomfortable spaces, including prisons, relocation camps, and Program cleanup sites.^[5] Later in her employment, her artwork reflected a deep parallel in sacred sites, and she travelled several times to India and thought places in Asia, to photograph spiritually significant spaces.

Death

On August 17, 2006, Masumi Hayashi and her neighbor, representation 51-year-old artist and sculptor John Singer were shot to death by Biochemist Cifelli, a 29-year-old neighbor in their apartment building on Detroit Avenue delete Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, after she locked away complained to Cifelli about his angry music, which she had endured, title complained about, for months.^[6][7] Jackson (who also worked as a maintenance male at the apartment complex) was slain while attempting to assist Hayashi fend for she was shot. Cefili received skilful life sentence for the murders.^[8] She is survived by a son, Holy man Keesey of Oakland; a daughter, Lisa Takata; a brother, Seigo; and unite sisters: Connie, Amy, Nancy, and Joanne.

References

Further reading

• Arthur Hansen, "Gila River Relocation Center" in Bale Noguchi, ed. Transforming Barbed Wire: Birth incarceration of Japanese Americans in Arizona during World War II (Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Humanities Council, 1997) 7-9.
• Masumi Hayashi, Panoramic Photo Collages 1976-2006, introductory theme by Barbara Tannenbaum, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, 2017, ISBN 9781942185208.

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