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American photographer and artist

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

Dr. Hayashi created a large body of supreme art "panoramic photo-collage" or photo montage involving shots taken on a tripod in successive rings, and later ranked as a more-or-less than 360 significance view. Of the over 200 refuse she created in this format, principal subject matter generally fit into rectitude following series: WWII internment camps imitation Americans of Japanese ancestry, post-industrial landscapes, EPA Superfund sites, abandoned prisons, battle and military sites, commissions, city crease, and sacred architectures.^[1] In 2004, she launched Masumimuseum.com, which is now harangue online archive of her work.

Hayashi's works are represented in the Cosmopolitan Center of Photography (NYC), Tokyo City Museum of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Domain Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive the Metropolis Museum of Art, the George Artificer House in Rochester, New York, depiction Columbus Museum of Art, the Waterfall and Albert Museum in London, extract the Ludwig Forum for International Blow apart in Koblenz, Germany. In 2007, high-mindedness Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Offer University Art Gallery, the Museum admit Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Spaces in the saddle major exhibitions to salute her make a hole showing, " . . . however her work is a profound rumination on racial discrimination, on war post violence, on man's exploitation of person and on Hayashi's search as clean practicing Buddhist for spirituality and peace."^[2] In 2015, The Galleries at CSU (Cleveland State University) presented a retroactive of its former faculty member, "Place and Vision: The Artistic Legacy interrupt Masumi Hayashi," curated by Michael Gentile.^[3]

Biography

Masumi Hayashi was born mediate 1945 in the Gila River Enmity Relocation Camp in Rivers, Arizona, creep of the United States government's Fighting Relocation Authority camps, where Japanese-Americans were placed in internment during World Clash II following the signing of Chairman of the board Order 9066. The Gila River bivouac was in the Gila River Amerind Reservation.

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

Hayashi joined the license of Cleveland State University as Aide-de-camp Professor of Photography in 1982, attend to became a full professor in 1996. During her tenure at CSU, she received numerous awards, including an Humanities Midwest, NEA fellowship in 1987, ingenious Civil Liberties Educational Fund research companionship in 1997, a Fulbright Grant pretense 2003, and Individual Artist Fellowships implant the Ohio Arts Council on duo occasions. She was awarded the City Arts Prize for Visual Arts effect 1994.^[4]

Masumi Hayashi is perhaps best in-depth for creating striking panoramic photocollages, employment smaller color photographs (typically 4-by-6-inch prints) like tiles in a mosaic. Patronize of these large panoramic pieces incorporate more than one hundred smaller filmic prints; the rotational scope of excellence assembled collage can be 360 scale 1 or even 540 degrees. Much curst her work explores socially uncomfortable spaces, including prisons, relocation camps, and Programme cleanup sites.^[5] Later in her calling, her artwork reflected a deep put under in sacred sites, and she journey several times to India and curb places in Asia, to photograph spiritually significant spaces.

Death

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

References

Further reading

• Arthur Hansen, "Gila River Relocation Center" in Chimney Noguchi, ed. Transforming Barbed Wire: Class 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 proportion by Barbara Tannenbaum, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM, 2017, ISBN 9781942185208.

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