As the highest peak in Japan, Mount Fuji looms, physically and metaphysically, over both the country and the culture, a major subject for artists and poets throughout the centuries. Over the past couple of decades, Masao Yamamoto's small photographs of the dormant volcano have segued between monumental vistas and intimate metaphors. A 1996 print features a rough boulder in a bare field with the snow-covered peak in the distance. Only six inches across, this scene of geographic expanse also foreshadows the eroded rubble that even the most magnificent range will one day become.... More >>>