Name	Okamoto, Yoichi R.
Alternative Names
ID	5418
Gender	male
Lifespan	1915-07-05 - 1985-04-24
Professions	photographer (Q33231)

Collection(s)	Cultural Politics, Transfer & Propaganda
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/5418/
Notes	He trained most of the nineteen employed Austrian press photographers in modern Life-reportage. According to him, the US propaganda objectives were: 1) to tell the truth in pictures, 2) be subtle, 3) present a fundamental idea, 4) carry on American journalistic progressiveness (see Petschaer 264). In 1964 he became the official White House photographer for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
References	Cf. Petschar: "Communicating the Marshall Plan in Austria", 253-268. For more information on his documentation of the Marshall Plan in Austria and the depth and artistry of his work see Friedlmeier, Herbert, Hans Petschar, and Michaela Pfundner. "U.S. Photography and the Marshall Plan." Images of the Marshall Plan in Europe. Films, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters. Ed. Günter Bishopf, and Dieter Stiefel. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2009. 169-201. For more information on his training Austrian press photographers see Krammer, Marion, and Margarete Szeless. "Yoichi Okamoto and the 'Pictorial Section': Austrian-American Relations in Press Photography 1945-1955." 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I. Ed. Günter Bischof, and Ferdinand Karlhofer. Contemporary Austrian Studies 23. Innsbruck: Innsbruck UP, 2014. 275-91.