Masao Yamamoto

Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto in Moscow (2009)

Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, Yamamoto Masao^?, born 1957 in Gamagori City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese freelance photographer known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects.

Biography

Yamamoto began his art studies as a painter,^[1] studying oil painting under Goro Saito in his native city. He presently uses photography to capture images evoking memories.^[2] He blurs the border between painting and photography however, by experimenting with his printing surfaces. He dyes, tones (with tea), paints on, and tears his photographs. His subjects include still-lives, nudes, and landscapes. He also makes installation art with his small photographs to show how each print is part of a larger reality.

21st Editions recently published Yamamoto's work in two limited editions, a Deluxe Edition ($9000) and Prism book ($750).

Books

• A box of Ku, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A., 1998
• Nakazora, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A., 2001
• Santoka, Harunatsuakifuyu sousho, Japan, 2003
• Omizuao, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A., 2003
• é, Nazraeli Press, U.S.A., 2005
• YAMAMOTO MASAO, 21st Editions, U.S.A., 2011
• 川KAWA=Flow, Kochuten Books, Japan, 2011
• Where we met, Lannoo Publishers, Belgium, 2011. A collaborating book with Belgian drawer and painter Arpaïs Du Bois.

Exhibitions

• Kawa=Flow, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. January 2011.
• “KAWA=FLOW”, Fifty One Fine art photography,Antwerp, Belgium 2009
• “KAWA=FLOW”, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; 2009
• "YAMAMOTO MASAO". Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica. January 2008.
• "Kawa=Flow". Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. September October 2008.^[3]
• "YAMAMOTO MASAO" PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; 2007
• YAMAMOTO MASAO GALLERIA CARLA SOZZANI, Milano; 2007
• Nakazora Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France; 2007
• Nakazora GALERIE GABRIEL ROLT, Amsterdam; 2007
• Nakazora, GALERIE CAMERA OBSCURA, Paris; 2006
• Installations, HACKELBURY FINE ART, London; 2006
• é, MIZUMA ART GALLERY, Tokyo; 2006
• é, GALLERY SINCERITE, Tyohashi; 2006
• “é“, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; 2005

References

1. ^ Barnett, Laura (20 May 2006). "Masao Yamamoto's 'Nakazora' series". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3652453/Viewfinder-Masao-Yamamotos-Nakazora-series.html. Retrieved 27 May 2010. 
2. ^ "Art:Masao Yamamoto". The Portland Mercury. 5 December 2002. http://www.portlandmercury.com/visualart/masao-yamamoto/Content?oid=28067. Retrieved 27 May 2010. 
3. ^ [http://www.re-title.com/public/newsletters

External links

• Masao Yamamoto at Craig Krull Gallery
• Masao Yamamoto's Webpage
• Masao Yamamoto's Photographic Haiku - Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
• Yamamoto Masao published by 21st Editions

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