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Yamamoto Masao, born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Japan, is a renowned contemporary photographer celebrated for his poetic and intimate approach to capturing the essence of the natural world and the human experience. His work has garnered international acclaim for its delicate and evocative qualities.

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Masao Yamamoto was born in 1957 in Gamagori, Japan and started photographing when he was 16 years old. After studying plastic arts and painting, he decided in the 1980s to focus exclusively on photography.

Masao Yamamoto (山本昌男, Yamamoto Masao, born 1957) is a Japanese freelance photographer known for his small photographs, which seek to individualize the photographic prints as objects. Yamamoto was born in 1957 in Gamagori City in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Yamamoto’s philosophical and spiritual roots contribute to his distinctive photographic style, in which the ordinary is revealed as something extraordinary. The artist’s series Bonsai focuses on the traditional Japanese art of cultivating miniature ornamental trees or shrubs.

Nov 13, 2019 · Yamamoto Masao (Gamagōri, Japon, 1957–) studied painting, choosing photography as his primary media around 1980. In his photographs, the artist engages viewers through a concentrated presentation of his subjects, which are most often animals or elements of the natural world.

Feb 18, 2025 · Yamamoto Masao is no exception. Fascinated by the tactility of printmaking, he views it as essential to his artistic practice, experimenting with alternative printing techniques such as dyeing, toning, and hand-painting his prints to create unique, physical works of art.

Yamamoto Masao's photographs engage with, and demand from the viewer, a concentrated and contemplative experience. Inspired by Zen philosophy, the spiritual content of his images is often compounded by their small scale.