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Radius Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 60 duotone.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 35   

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ISBN 9781942185130 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $78.00 GBP £53.00

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Yamamoto Masao: Tori


Yamamoto Masao: Tori

The master of the silent moment trains his lens on his lifelong obsession: birds

As a small boy growing up in the Japanese countryside, photographer Masao Yamamoto enjoyed looking up at the sky. From his classroom window, he would gaze at the windblown clouds, mesmerized by airborne creatures such as birds, butterflies and winged insects. He sometimes dreamed of riding on the back of a bird and flying away to faraway places.

Yamamoto’s career as a photographer began in 1993. One of Japan’s most important living photographers, Yamamoto has taken many different approaches to photography over the past 20 years. But what has remained constant is the artist’s belief that humans are just a small part of nature, united with it and part of it. Throughout his career, Yamamoto has often returned to animals, particularly birds, as a subject, reflecting his childhood fascination with the creatures and his eternal commitment to the unity of humanity and nature. With Tori, the photographer departs on yet another artistic journey, with a new series of quietly moving animal images (tori means “bird” in Japanese). Yamamoto asks himself, and his viewers: What do we see, and what do we identify with, in birds?

Yamamoto Masao (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before turning to photography. His portraits, landscapes and still lifes are silver prints that are delicately toned and sometimes overpainted/dyed. Among his previous publications is Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015). In the US, Yamamoto is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta, Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles and the Etherton Gallery in Tucson, among others.


Yamamoto Masao (born 1957) trained as an oil painter before turning to photography. His portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer then frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea. Among his previous publications is Small Things in Silence (RM/Seigensha, 2015). In the US, Yamamoto is represented by the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, PDX Contemporary Art in Oregon, the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston and the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, among others.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Masao Yamamoto: Tori.'

Yamamoto Masao: Tori

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/6/2016

Yamamoto Masao Book Launch at Spaces Corners

Yamamoto Masao Book Launch at Spaces Corners

Friday December 9 from 4-6pm, Spaces Corners at ICP Museum and Radius Books present a book launch and signing with renowned Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao, who will be signing advance copies of his superb new monograph, Tori.
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MASAO YAMAMOTO MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Masao Yamamoto: Small Things in Silence

MASAO YAMAMOTO: SMALL THINGS IN SILENCE

RM/Seigensha

ISBN: 9788417975012
USD $60.00
| CAN $84

Pub Date: 5/4/2021
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