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Tomoko Yamamoto

Tomoko Yamamoto

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Profession: Multimedia Artist
Location: Vienna , Austria ( VIE )
Home base: Vienna, Austria
URL: http://www.tomoko-yamamoto.com
URL: http://www.photoshelter.com/user/tomoko-yamamoto
Email: •••••••• (private)
Languages spoken: English, Japanese, German
Skype: Multimediatomoko multimediatomoko
Mobile phone (while in Vienna): •••••••• (private)
Mobile phone: +43(0)68183169909
Last login: 5 days ago
Member since: 24 Apr 2006 09:04

About

Tomoko Yamamoto is a native of Tokyo, Japan where she visit her family regularly, but she lived in the US for the past 43 years. She moved to Vienna , Austria in the summer of 2009. Her academic background includes Bachelor`s degree in Biology (Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1966, Tokyo, Japan) followed by a second B.S. in Physics (Bradley University,1968, Peoria, IL, USA) and a Ph.D. in Biophysics (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1974, Ann Arbor, MI, USA). She came to photography after a few years of research and teaching college-level physics. Her turning point was her 1977 photograph of the Cornell campus in Ithaca, New York, which graced the cover of Cornell Alumni Magazine in 1991.

Later her impressionist reflection photos and other nature photos were exhibited in Maryland and the neighboring states of Virginia and Delaware. More recently she has started to include music in her career by presenting multimedia shows of songs and photographs with the vocal compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert and her own. She has traveled to Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy, UK, etc.) during the summer for the past 16 years and have taken photographs, the themes of which have been mostly driven by her musical and literary interests.

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Storytelling

In my last session with my vocal coach who is from Poland, I learned that he grew up listening to fairy tales on records. I don`t remember having such an experience, but I recall that in Japan we have a traditional storytelling technique called Kamishibai, translated to English, paper theater. A story is told with a picture on a cardboard paper which is handheld (a more elaborate kind might have a frame). There are several pictures in a story, and the text is printed on the back on the paper if I remember correctly. The storyteller holds the pictures in front of the children and tells the story.

I was thinking about this this afternoon and tried to relate it to my multimedia music making. Using this Kamishibai technique, I would be a storyteller (singer) by the screen, the equivalent of a picture on the cardboard.

What kind of story telling did you grow up with and perhaps tell us about how it influences your image making and putting them together as a story.

05 Feb 2010 14:02 | 3 replies

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