SON ALBUM: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MASAO YAMAMOTO

Paris, France: T & M Projects, 2021. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Paris, France: T & M Projects, 2021. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 64 pages. Artist Book. Collection of toned black-and-white photographs. One of Masao Yamamoto's most beautiful books. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only in French, Japanese, and English Language Versions. This is an Import title. None of the copies were commercially sold in the United States. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Masao Yamamoto: Oversize-volume format. White hard boards with photographic reproduction pasted in the front center and titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Masao Yamamoto. Text (in English) by Marie-Helene Lafon and Didier Brousse. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Printed in gravure on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Masao Yamamoto's "Son Album". A humane masterpiece from the Japanese Master of the delicate, ephemeral, and sublime. "Masao Yamamoto lives in Yamanashi Prefecture Japan, in a house surrounded by forests over three thousand feet above sea level. His life matches his art, entirely devoted to capturing the 'small things in silence' that Life and Nature offer his gaze. When in 2013 we took Masao and his wife Reiko for the first time to the Ardeche Region [in France], affinities became evident immediately: The same love for nature and the mountains. The same wooded hills on the horizon. The same lights in space in the evening garden. Yamamoto also wanted to meet people and photograph them. Using small settings, he depicted what seems important in their lives: The animals they raise, the countryside they live in" (Publisher's blurb) . An absolute "must-have" title for Masao Yamamoto collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in Japanese black-brushed calligraphy (with matching red chop/stamp) by Masao Yamamoto. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few such signed and chop-stamped copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is an Import title. None of the copies were commercially sold in the United States. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with toned gravure plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 4909442200.