• Below are two new bodies of work by one of our longest represented artists, Yamamoto Masao. Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao approaches his work with an “active passiveness.” He is active in his observations of Nature, but passive in his understanding that he is an inextricable part of Nature itself. Living in a forest, he photographically “harvests” what he calls “treasures breathing quietly in nature.” For Yamamoto, the act of making a photograph is like picking up a rock on the beach and holding the universe in your hands. Yamamoto is premiering his latest body of work utilizing the 19th century Ambrotype photographic process. Each unique Ambrotype is a wet collodion plate varnished by the artist and floated within a handmade frame. As the artist states, “The fluidity of this collodion process shows us an accidental and unknown world. I feel the time has rewound and I am traveling back to the origin of photography.”  
     
    Showing simultaneously with the Ambrotypes, Jackson Fine Art presents for the first time Yamamoto’s Tomosu Series - Tomosu, meaning “to put a little light in the darkness.” The series evinces Yamamoto’s quiet interest in the human form and the natural world. Yamamoto tries to evoke a large range of emotions through mere suggestion. We see dreamlike, nostalgic, and pure images of landscapes, birds, still lives, portraits and nudes within this series. But what we are looking at is hard to define and one is free to form their own interpretation. 
  • ”I photograph small and beautiful things that I encounter in my daily life. I would be happy if my photographs reach you and become a small light in your heart.”

    - Yamamoto Masao 

  • Tomosu series

    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6006, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6006, 2023
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6002, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6002, 2023
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6003, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6003, 2023
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  • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6010, 2023

    Yamamoto Masao

    Tomosu #6010, 2023
    6 1/2 x 9 inch silver gelatin print
    Edition of 15
    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6005, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6005, 2023
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6001, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6001, 2023
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6000, 2023
      Yamamoto Masao, Tomosu #6000, 2023
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  • Ambrotypes

    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #62, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #62, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #28, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #28, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #58, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #58, 2022
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  • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #56, 2022

    Yamamoto Masao

    Ambrotype #56, 2022
    5 x 7 inch ambrotype, wet collodion plate
    Unique

    5 x 8 inch silver gelatin print
    Edition of 10
    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #68, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #68, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #26, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #26, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #65, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #65, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #55, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #55, 2022
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #48, 2022
      Yamamoto Masao, Ambrotype #48, 2022
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  • Nakazora Installations

    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1254
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1254
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #990
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #990
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1159
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1159
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1016
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1016
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #517
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #517
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1381
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1381
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1288
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1288
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #918, 2002
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #918, 2002
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #56
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #56
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #571, 1998
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #571, 1998
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #300
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #300
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1053
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1053
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #545
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #545
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1060, 2002
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1060, 2002
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #554
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #554
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Box of Ku #190
      Yamamoto Masao, Box of Ku #190
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    • Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #185, 1996
      Yamamoto Masao, A Box of Ku #185, 1996
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    • Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1171, 2007
      Yamamoto Masao, Nakazora #1171, 2007
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