“Kansuke Yamamoto was at heart a solitary photographer who remained independent and autonomous. … I contend that Yamamoto’s work should not be lost within this postwar history, nor should his career be understood in terms of the accepted notion that Japan’s modern photographic expression comprised just two parts-prewar and postwar-and that all Japanese photographers should be categorized along those lines.”

----  Ryuichi Kaneko, Photo Historian

Kansuke Yamamoto was 18 when he started photographing in 1931, 30 years long before Japanese Photography became recognized worldwide after WWII in the 1960s. Since the very beginning Yamamoto was highly skillful and full of innovative expressions the completion level of his works catch up with the works of European advocative artists like Man Ray and Moholy-Nagi.

amanasalto has carefully selected a set 14 masterpieces from Yamamoto's early works with Toshio Yamamoto, son of Kansuke Yamamoto and director of his estate. The series of early works, namely “Kansuke Yamamoto -  Selection from Early Works (1933-1953)”, includes the multiple exposure work “Reminiscence”, collage work “A Chronicle of Drifting” which was considered extremely hard to reproduce after Yamamoto has passed away.

The faithful reproduction from the artist's negatives without altering his originally intented expressions was made possible by incorporating our originally developed digital technology into our platinum printmaking resulting in prints delicate in texture and rich in tones.