Masao Yamamoto
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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, by experimenting with 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.
Exhibitions
- é, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, 2005, Gallery Sincerite, Tyohashi, 2006; Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2006
- Installations, Hackelbury Fine Art, London; 2006
- Nakazora, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, 2006; Nakazora Galerie Gabriel Rolt, Amsterdam, 2007; Quinzaine photographique Nantes, France, 2007
- Yamamoto Masao, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, 2007; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, 2007; Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, January 2008.
- Kawa=Flow. Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. September–October 2008;[3] PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, 2009; Fifty One Fine art photography, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009; Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, January 2011.
Publications
- 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 collaboration with Belgian drawer and painter Arpaïs Du Bois.
References
- ↑ Barnett, Laura (20 May 2006). "Masao Yamamoto's 'Nakazora' series". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ↑ "Art:Masao Yamamoto". The Portland Mercury. 5 December 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
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