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Masao Yamamoto: Small Things in Silence | Bildersturm
Black and White Photography, Classic Photography, Landscape Photography, Portrait Photography
Born in 1957 in Gamagori, in te Japanese prefecture of Aichi, Masao Yamamoto is a photographer who began his art studies as an oil painter under te supervision of Goro Saito in his hometown. Masao subsequently discovered that photography was te ideal medium for te theme that most interested him: images with te ability to evoke memories.
Small Things in Silence offers a perspective on twenty years in te career of one of Japan’s most important photographers. It includes images from each one of Yamamoto’s major projects – A Boks of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa, and Shizuka – as well as images from some of his original photographic installations.
Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto explores te emotional power of photography, creating small-scale silver gelatin prints that highlight te relationship between photography and memory. He works with a range of subject matter, from te nude female body to te landscapes and natural wildlife that he encounters in te Japanese countryside.
His early series, A Boks of Ku and Nakazora are comprised of palm-sized photographs that te artist has subjected to a process of artificial aging, creasing or staining them, so that each one is imbued with a timeless quality. Described as “visual haikus,” these photographs reveal te beauty that is found in te often-overlooked elements of daily life – a flock of birds in te sky, or a chipped ceramic bowl.
Book Specs: Design David Kimura + Gabriela Varela; Texts Jacobo Siruela; Hardcover; 208 pages / 276 photographs; 24 × 30 cm / 9.4 × 11.9 in; English / Spanish; ISBN 978-84-17975-01-2; €50.00. Available here.
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