Tomoko Yamamoto is a native of Tokyo, Japan and came to the United States in 1966. After studying in Illinois and Michigan, she went to Cornell University for postdoctoral work.
Tomoko is a self-taught photographer. Her photo career started with an exhibit at Frank Katz Gallery in 1989 as part of a three-person show, which came about because of her 1977 photos of the Cornell campus in snow. One of them was to be featured on the front cover of Cornell Alumni Magazine in 1991....
more »Tomoko Yamamoto is a native of Tokyo, Japan and came to the United States in 1966. After studying in Illinois and Michigan, she went to Cornell University for postdoctoral work.
Tomoko is a self-taught photographer. Her photo career started with an exhibit at Frank Katz Gallery in 1989 as part of a three-person show, which came about because of her 1977 photos of the Cornell campus in snow. One of them was to be featured on the front cover of Cornell Alumni Magazine in 1991. Also these landscape photos were exhibited at Neikrug Photographica in New York City in 1991. Her many photo exhibits have included an entry in national juried exhibition of Works on or of Paper at the University Gallery of the University of Delaware in 1992, a solo show at the Asian Arts Center of Towson University in 1994, a series of exhibits through the Corporate Arts Program of the Arts Council of Fairfax County between 1995 and 1999. Her photographs have been included in various private collections as well as in the collection of the University Gallery, University of Delaware. Her work of doors and windows commissioned by the Presbytery of Baltimore in 2005 has been on display at the conference room of the Baltimore Presbytery in Baltimore, Maryland.
Her water reflections work was created between 1989 and 2003. She worked with the reflections of trees, leaves, and flowers onto the surface of the waters in the Baltimore Metropolitan area. The rivers, streams, and the lake at which she photographed were Stony Run, Lake Roland, the Patapsco River, and Herring Run. Nature Objects, with the photos taken in Finzel Swamp in Maryland is a small body of work she undertook in early `90s to interpret whimsical shapes in Nature, in particular decayed tree trunks.
For the past several years, she has presented multimedia programs involving the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, and herself with her photos projected on the screen and singing the arias and the songs.
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