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Masao Yamamoto

PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders, through Sept 29

The photographs of Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto go against the grain of contemporary practices: They’re small, intimate, delicate, and spiritual. In today’s bigger-is-better world, Yamamoto’s birdlike photos feel like tender anachronisms, even though there are few fine art precedents for his approach to photography. Yamamoto’s photographs are tiny: Their scale is closer to dominoes and […]

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