Masao Yamamoto

Photobooks and artist publications by Masao Yamamoto — Japanese photographer known for small-format, hand-treated silver gelatin prints that approach each image as a physical object. Selected for collectors and readers of contemplative, process-driven photography.

Masao Yamamoto Photobooks

Masao Yamamoto (born 1957, Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) works in small-format silver gelatin prints that resist easy categorisation. His photographs — of still-lifes, nudes, and landscapes — are frequently dyed, toned with tea, painted on, or torn before printing, treating each image as a physical object with its own particular history. The result is a body of work that holds stillness and impermanence in close proximity. His photobooks and artist publications are held in Lokator100's carefully selected catalogue alongside other works in Photography.

Yamamoto's publications carry the character of his prints directly into book form. The small scale is deliberate — these are not coffee-table objects but books meant to be held, turned slowly, and returned to. His practice began in oil painting, and that background remains legible in the way he treats photographic surfaces: as grounds for intervention rather than transparent windows onto subject matter. The books function as sequences and as objects simultaneously, making them of interest both to readers of Japanese fine art photography and to collectors drawn to artist-driven publications. Those with an interest in the broader field of experimental photography publishing may also find relevant work in the IIKKI collection.

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Lokator100 is an independent bookstore based in Germany. Each item in this collection is documented accurately for condition before listing. Books are packed with care and dispatched from Germany with tracking included. What is described is what arrives.

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