The main purpose of the proposed project is to publish an English language, edited volume on the life, work, and the significance of photographer Yoichi Okamoto and the photographic record he created in Austria and in the United States. Using a visual frame of reference, the authors investigate the impact of Okamoto’s photography on our understanding of post-WWII Austria, its reconstruction and cultural life and connect it all the way to the pictorial record of the Johnson Administration and its many crucial moments in history through one unique lens.