Capturing the work and sensibility of Yamamoto on an unprece dented scale. Yamamoto brings Japanese traditions into moder n pictures with poetic, lyrical images that transport and inspire.
Small T hings in Silence offers a perspective on twenty years in the career o f one of Japan’s most famous photographers. In the words of Yamamoto himself: “I try to capture moments that no one sees and make a photo from them. When I seen them in print, a new story begins. ”
Born in 1957 in Gamagori, in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi, photog rapher Masao Yamamoto began his art studies as an oil painter. Masao s ubsequently discovered that photography was the ideal medium for the t heme that most interested him: images with the ability to evoke memories.
Small Th ings in Silence includes images from each one of Yamamoto’s major p rojects—Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa, and Shizuka—as well as images from some of his original photographic installations. Masao Yamamoto (1957, Japan) is known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects.