Yamamoto
began his art studies as a painter, studying oil painting under Goro Saito
in his native city. He presently uses photography to capture images evoking
memories. 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.
Masao puts up his exhibition without frames, sticking
small pictures to the wall. Putting numerous pictures on wall, Yamamoto creates
a large scale photograph made of smaller installations. All his photographs are
hand printed, and carried round in his pockets for a while to roughen the
pictures up.
21st Editions recently published Yamamoto's work in
two limited editions, a Deluxe Edition ($9000) and Prism book ($750).
Masao Yamamoto makes very 'quiet' landscapes, they all
have quite an eery look to them, something I am considering trying to add to my
work. Yamamoto uses very empty, open sceneries in his photographs to make very
basic looking landscapes.
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