Masao Yamamoto

In this week, our whole class went to Jackson Fine Art together, at this time, I saw a two box of Images from Masao Yamamoto. It is easy to recognize from his name, this photographer is from Japan.

Yamamoto was born in 1957 in Japan, starting learned drawing when he was young. After that, he started shooting pictures since 80 century, and until the middle of 90 century, he’s exhibition was held in America.

Yamamoto prefer small pictures to big pictures, he loves to put his work in a box or in the pocket. “It is because small picture was cheaper in the beginning, but I thought small pictures were easy to carry and I liked my works after someone carrying for some days.” He said.  

Most of his works were shooting in Japan, Landscapes, animals and people. I love the ways he shooting animals, for example, a dog sitting beside the cherry tree is one of my favorite pictures, it is seem like Fall, since most of the grass is turned yellow and there are few leafs on those branches. The picture looked old, and with green, yellow and a little red on it, which made people feel very comfortable.

I also believe that Yamamoto loves monkeys very much, those monkeys in his pictures are really cute. One picture is a monkey sitting in the snow, and another one is a line of monkeys, walking along a river, seems they are going home. A small monkey even sitting on he’s mother’s back, which makes me feel warmer in the snowing day.

In conclusion, I like Masao Yamamoto’s photography very much. I like the ways he deal with the photo’s margin and I also fascinating with the yellow and brown color on his picture.