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About Japanese photographer, Teiko SHIOTANI (1899-1988)
Teikō SHIOTANI was a photographer whose work in the late 1920s and early 1930s in and near Tottori, where he lived, made him a major figure in Japanese pictorialism. Despite living far from any metropolis, he was famous among photographers nationwide. He portrayed landscapes, seascapes, priests at a local temple, his family, and other quotidian matters and scenes; his images at times unmediated, at others exploiting lens aberration or using darkroom effects. Among the photographers directly influenced by him was Shōji UEDA, who lived nearby. As ideals and fashions in photography changed, his work was largely forgotten in postwar Japan until interest was reawakened by a 1975 book devoted to his work; he later became known outside Japan thanks to an exhibition of Japanese photography that toured Europe from 1979 to 1982. Many of his prints survive in museum collections, and since 2016 four photobooks largely or exclusively dedicated to his work have been published in Japan.
Photo books by as well as with works by Teiko SHIOTANI
- 'Shiotani Teikō meisakushū. 1923–1973' (塩谷定好名作集 / Album 1923–1973, 1975); 'Japanese Photography Today and Its Origin' (1979); 'Fotografie 1922–82 / Photography 1922–82' (1982); 'Uminari no fūkei: Shiotani Teikō shashinshū (海鳴りの風景 塩谷定好写真集 / Teikoh Shiotani Portfolio 1923–1973' (1984); 'Geijutsu shashin no nenpu (芸術写真の年譜 / The Heritage of Art Photography in Japan' (1986); 'Modern Photography in Japan 1915–1940' (2001); 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s' (by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian); 'Geijutsu shashin no jidai. Shiotani-Teikō-ten katarogu (芸術写真の時代 塩谷定好展 カタログ / The Age of Art Photography, 2016); 'Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō: 1899–1988 (愛しきものへ 塩谷定好1899–1988 / To things beloved: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988, 2017); 'Yume no kageri: Shiotani Teikō no shashin 1899–1988 (夢の翳 塩谷定好の写真1899–1988 / Teiko Shiotani, 2019); 'Seitan 120-nen geijutsu-shashin no kamisama Shiotani Teikō to sono jidai (生誕120年 芸術写真の神様 塩谷定好とその時代 / The Legend in Art Photography: Teikoh Shiotani and His Contemporaries, 2019);