Album in the collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (BANC PIC 1993.028--fALB). The OAC finding aid includes 80 digital images from the album.
"Kato was an amateur photographer and painter, and several of the photographs refer to his involvement with these practices. Although only four of the prints bear either Kato's signature or embossed stamp, it is possible that a large percentage of the work in the album is his. There is at least one self-portrait by Kato. With Kamejiro Sawa, Kato was the proprietor of a Los Angeles photo, art and stationery goods business. This business, named The Korin, is featured in some of the photographs. Sawa is likely one of the friends appearing throughout the album, and may have been the compiler of the album as loose items in the collection include his United States registration card and two of his driver's licenses."
A photo portrait of Kato, from this album, appears in Bancroftiana vol. 117 (Fall 2000).
"Taizo Kato was a prolific Japanese-American photographer working in the Pictorialism tradition in Southern California through the early 1900’s. His work emphasized the pastoral, soft-focus style that included qualities of suggestion and poetry, which spring naturally from the Japanese soul. A large number of his friends formed the Japanese Camera Pictorialists Club of California, and their modernistic ideas helped inspire the avant-garde of Europe, and even Edward Weston, who acknowledged their influence on his own work."