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According to Hepburn romanization, Shiotani's adopted given name is written "Teikō". Many publications in English do not provide macrons, resulting in "Teiko". Following an informal convention, some other publications give it as "Teikoh". was a photographer whose work in and near Tottori in the late 1920s and early 1930s made him a major figure in Japanese pictorialism. 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.


Life and career


Early life

Sadayoshi Shiotani (, is the ''
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'' (a traditional but now obsolete form) of ''shio''; the ''
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'' (new and currently used form) is . For most purposes, most modern publications silently modernize, representing as (or, in another example, representing the prewar magazine title (''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'') as ). However, the book '' Teikoh Shiotani: The Legend in Art Photography'' is unusual in not modernizing the orthography of the prewar text that it reprints; and its collection (pp. 204–229) of prewar magazine articles by Shiotani shows consistent use of (not ).
''Shiotani Sadayoshi'')Tomoko Takeuji, "Shiotani Teiko and Art Photography"; ; within '' Geijutsu shashin no jidai: Shiotani-Teikō-ten katarogu'' () = '' The Age of Art Photography: Shiotani Teiko Exhibition Catalogue.'' Mitaka, Tokyo: Mitaka City Gallery of Art and Mitaka City Sports and Culture Foundation, 2016. Pp. 17–23 (English); pp. 9–16 (Japanese). was born in October 1899Some sources say 22 October (an example: th
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provided by the Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery); others say 24 October (an example: th
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provided by the publisher of '' Yume no kageri''): both web pages accessed 24 January 2020.
in Akasaki (since 2004 part of Kotoura), Tottori, to a family who owned a shipping agency.Noriko Tsutatani, "To things beloved – Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988" (in English); "Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō: 1899–1988" (in Japanese, ); respectively pp. 270–279 and pp. 201–208 within '' Itoshiki mono e.'' He was the eldest son of the sixth patriarch; the fifth, his grandfather, had held various important civic posts, and had some interest in photography. As a young boy, Shiotani enjoyed drawing and was good at it. When he was 12 or 13, he received a Description of the original model of the Vest Pocket Kodak: G. E. White,
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, The Vest Pocket Kodak.
camera. Equipped with a simple
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, this
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used
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, a small format for the time, and was marketed as sufficiently compact to fit in a
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pocket. It was popular in Japan, where it was familiarly referred to as a ''besutan'', and the photographers using it as ''besutan-ha''."Teikō Shiotani: ''Teikō Shiotani: Album, 1923–1973'': 1975"; pp. 178–181 within
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and Ivan Vartanian, '' Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s''.
Alternatively, ''vesutan (-ha)''. The etymology of ''besutan (-ha)'' or ''vesutan (-ha)'' ( or ): ''besu/vesu'' from ''besuto/vesuto'' (Japanese for "vest"); ''tan'' from ''tantai, tanjun'', etc (Japanese for "simple" or "simplex"); ''ha'' meaning "group" or "tendency". Material in English about the Vest Pocket Kodak in Japan uses a variety of spellings, including ''vestan''. When Shiotani was 14, he participated in a photography event at Karo () harbour in Tottori."Shiotani Teikō nenpu" (; Teikō Shiotani chronology); pp. 224–231 within '' Yume no kageri.'' From 1912, Shiotani attended Kurayoshi Agricultural High School (now ). Powerfully built, he did well at
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. He graduated in 1917, whereupon he became serious about photography."Shiotani Teikō to geijutsu shashin kanren nenpu" (; Chronology of Teikō Shiotani and pictorialist photography), pp. 261–268 within '' Teikoh Shiotani: The Legend in Art Photography.'' Like other users of the Vest Pocket Kodak, the teenage Shiotani was embarrassed when serious amateur photographers saw him using it; he soon supplemented it with a
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(90×130 mm) camera with a
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lens. Shiotani's fellow photographers formed the Kōei Club in 1919, with over two hundred members. (''Kōei'', , means "light and shade".) Shiotani's first known attendance in a Kōei meeting was in 1921, and photographs of his appeared in its magazine ''Kōei'' from 1922.Though provincial (and only lasting from 1920 to 1925), ''Kōei'' was "an extremely high-quality journal, with . . . photographs reproduced using the collotype process". Noriko Tsutatani, "To things beloved – Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988" (in English, p. 277, n. 5); "Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō: 1899–1988" (in Japanese, , p. 207, n. 5); within '' Itoshiki mono e''. Some issues of the magazine also showed a Roman-letter title: ''Kwoyei'' (using a romanization system that even then was archaic). Photographs by Shiotani (using the name Gyokkō Shiotani, ) published in ''Kōei'' are reproduced in ''Itoshiki mono e'', pp. 212–213; his pair of articles (1922, 1923) about pinhole photography is reproduced in '' Teikoh Shiotani: The Legend in Art Photography'', pp. 204–205. Hokutō Saigō (), the key figure in Kōei, greatly encouraged Shiotani. Shiotani became an enthusiastic user of the Vest Pocket Kodak, and in 1919 set up the "Vest Club" (i.e. Vest Pocket Kodak club; , ''Besuto Kurabu'') in Akasaki, with 88 members. Perhaps thanks to his grandfather, he was freed from a career in the family shipping business and instead allowed to pursue photography. Many Japanese amateur photographers of the time prized a painterly effect over detail – not necessarily Western-style painting, but often
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, and particularly of a . The aim was ''geijutsu shashin'' (), which, depending on context, could be translated as "
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", "artistic photography", "salon photography" or "
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photography". The meniscus lens of the Vest Pocket Kodak did not permit detail, and photographers using it – notably Masataka Takayama, , , Mitsugi Arima () and Kōyō Yasumoto () – would often remove an
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limiter from around its lens (''fūdo hazushi'', ), thereby not only increasing the aperture by about two
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but also greatly softening the focus. Shiotani was attracted by the misty results and their resemblance to the works of a painter from Tottori whom he respected highly, . In 1922, Shiotani married Sadako Inoue (, 1905–1988). They had three sons, Sōnosuke (, b. June 1923), Reiji (, November 1926 – March 1927) and Makoto (, August 1940 – September 1945); and two daughters, Yūko (, b. February 1930) and Yōko (, b. July 1934).


Prominence

Shiotani's earliest known appearance in a major magazine was his ''Still life'' (''Seibutsu'', ), among contest winners in the January 1925 issue of '. His ''Shadow'' (''Kage'', ) appeared in the March 1925 issue of ''
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''. As editor of both magazines, realized that Shiotani was unusually talented. In August 1925, Shiotani and four other photographers made a trip around the coasts of
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: Kaka (), Konami (), Shichirui (), Mihonoseki, and particularly . Much later, Shiotani told
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We took photographs for three days and I thought we would die. . . . During that trip we didn't encounter a single woman. There were no inns; we just wrapped ourselves in straw mats and kept on walking. Finally we managed to get some
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and rice with duck eggs and it was delicious.Originally: . Quoted in Takayuki Kobayashi (), "Honshi sōkan 50-shūnen kinen tokushū: Besutan no aji o ikiru: Dai-ikkai getsurei shashin nyūsen Shiotani Teikō shi no baai" (; This magazine's 50th anniversary special: Living for the feel of the Vest Pocket Kodak: The case of Teikō Shiotani, winner of the first monthly exhibition), ''Asahi Camera'', April 1976, pp. 161–164.
Despite these hardships, a number of photographs Shiotani took on the trip soon appeared in magazines. His ''Bird's-Eye View of a Village'' (''Mura no chōkan'', ) was published in the March 1926 issue of ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū''.A print from a similar but different negative was published elsewhere in 1926, and others with a wider view in 1927 and (from a photograph taken in 1925) in 1934; all carry the same title. See the plates and their captions on pp. 25–29 within '' Itoshiki mono e''. It was influenced by
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and
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's paintings from
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(which Shiotani knew of thanks to the writings of Nakajima), and also Maeta's paintings of Paris. In 1926, he won the first prize in the first contest ever run by ''
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'', with ''Fishing Village'' (''Gyoson'', ), a photograph of Takohana.Takohana (or Takobana, either of which is spelt in Japanese ) – literally "Takohana nose", and thus Cape Takohana – is in Shimane-chō,
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.
From 1925 to 1927, Shiotani was also one of the key members of a group of photographers that in 1928 formally became the Japan Photography Association (Nihon Kōga Kyōkai, ). A successor to the Japan Photographic Art Association (Nihon Kōga Geijutsu Kyōkai, ), this published a magazine (''Gashū'', ) and an annual, and held meetings and exhibitions. It was open to expressive distortions made with the camera, in the darkroom, or to the print: in addition to removing the aperture limiter from around the lens of a Vest Pocket Kodak, this might include deforming the printing paper under the enlarger (''déformer'', ''deforumashion''), wiping prints with darker oil (''aburae-gu egaki-okoshi-hō'', ), and selectively removing this or adding powder to lighten areas (''zōkin-gake'', ). The work of Shiotani and the three other key members – Yamamoto, Takayama and Watanabe – was highly regarded by Nakajima, whose publications made their work well knownNoriko Tsutatani, "Yume no kageri: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988"; pp. 202–208 within '' Yume no kageri.''Noriko Tsutatani (), 中嶋謙吉と日本光画協会の写真家たち = "Nakajima Kenkichi and the members of the Japan Photography Association"; pp. 155–162 (Japanese) and xxi–xxvi (English) within ''Geijutsu shashin no seika: Nihon no pikutoriarizumu jugyō no meihinten'' () = ''Masterpieces of Japanese Pictorial Photography.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Museum of Photography, 2011. ; . Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, March–May 2011. (and who in 1933 published a how-to guide for the Vest Pocket Kodak''Vesutan no tsukaikata'' (; How to use the Vest Pocket Kodak; ); five years later, ''Vesutan Pāretto no tsukaikata'' (; How to use the vest-pocket Pearlette; ). (The Pearlette was a near-copy by
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of Contessa-Nettel's Piccolette, itself derived from the Vest Pocket Kodak.)
). From the mid-1920s, and often under one pseudonym or another,Shiotani's pseudonyms: Sadako Shiotani (, his wife's name), Sōnosuke Shiotani (, his first son's name), Gyokkō Shiotani (), Yukiko Inoue (), Kaoru Ōyama (), Sadayoshi Shioi (). (When printed until the late 1940s, would normally have appeared as .) By contrast, Teikō (the name by which he came to be known as a photographer) was not a pseudonym but instead a ' (reading used for professional purposes) of his actual name (first intended to be read as "Sadayoshi"). Most references to Shiotani in Japanese do not specify the pronunciation of ; where specified, it is usually "Teikō" but occasionally "Sadayoshi". Some early prints are marked "S.SIOTANI" or "SSIOTANI"; the example here of the latter is from the 1925/1926 print, also shown in this article, of ''Bird's-Eye View of a Village''. ("Siotani" is the equivalent in
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romanization to "Shiotani" in Hepburn romanization.) By contrast, many postwar prints are signed with the single character (i.e. "Shio"); these include plates 78, 79, 81, 82, 84 in '' The Age of Art Photography''. The form "Sadayoshi Shiotani" was used in (i) the travelling exhibition '' Fotografia Giapponese dal 1848 ad Oggi'' (as evidenced in both the Italian- and the English-language book that accompanied it), (ii) the Photokina exhibition '' Fotografie 1922–1982'' (as evidenced in both its bilingual catalogue and a review: Renee Bruns, "The picture shows", ''
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'', January 1983, p. 181), and (iii) the March 1988 ''Photo Metro''.
Shiotani's photographs frequently appeared in four Japanese photography magazines: ''Asahi Camera'', ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'', ''Camera'' and '.For a description of each of the magazines, see Mari Shirayama, "Major photography magazines': pp. 378–385 within '' The History of Japanese Photography''. All four were new, championing the new trends in art photography whose major proponents were Tetsusuke Akiyama () of the and Kōrō Kometani () of the Naniwa Photo Club, both with "a style reminiscent of academic painting";
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of the Japan Photographic Society, with "light and its harmony" (influenced by
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); and
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of the Japan Photographic Art Association), with avant-garde techniques drawn from painting – four photographers who were also among the judges of the magazines' contests. Shiotani became a leading figure in photography in the
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, and known nationwide: although Tottori had the lowest population of any of Japan's 47 prefectures,According to the 1925 census, Tottori had a population of 472 thousand (and was the sole prefecture with under half a million people). The populations of Tokyo, Osaka, Hyōgo and Kyoto prefectures were, respectively, 4.49M, 3.06M, 2.45M and 1.40M. (
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and Hokkaidō each had a population of over two million.) "Jinkō fuken" () = "Population par départements" (in Japanese and French); available via "Kokusei chōsa / Taishō 14-nen kokusei chōsa / zenkoku kekka hyō" (; National census: Taishō 14 National census: National results tables) a
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it was influential; in 1927 it had the fifth largest number of members of photography organizations, behind only
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. Tomoko Takeuji identifies the 1929 photograph ''Boy Priest Sitting''''Kobōzu zazō'' (). In later books an English title has been variously given as ''Boy Priest Sitting'', ''Portrait of Seated Child Priest'' and ''Portrait of Child Priest Seated''. as the point at which Shiotani matured as a photographer. This was published as a contest winner in the September 1929 issue of ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'', where Kenkichi Nakajima praised it for its lack of gimmickry and for its calm.The comments are reproduced on p. 73 of '' Itoshiki mono e'', although next to a subtly different photograph from 1930. Both Kometani and the younger photographer
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also praised it. The photograph shows the then 15-year-old priest Kōsen Daigaku,, ''Daigaku Kōsen'', 1913–2000. As printed, Tsutatani's essay names him as "YASUYOSHI Hisao (later Daigaku, 1913–2000)" (in the Japanese-language original, as ); however, an errata slip for the book corrects this. who had been at the
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temple Kaizō-ji (), near Shiotani's house, for less than a year; he was very lonely there but his dignity led Shiotani to make many portraits of him. Shiotani also photographed the other child priests and the chief priest at the temple, of which Shiotani was the chief parishioner. Shiotani attributed his new appreciation of religious motifs to the death in infancy of his second son, Reiji. As well as photographing people at the temple, he took many photographs of his first son, Sōnosuke, and his daughter, Yūko. As he emerged from mourning, Shiotani enjoyed and depicted their vitality and naïve innocence. Shiotani lived his whole life in the family house in Akasaki, which is on the sea; the upstairs room provided an excellent view of the sea, and Shiotani took many photographs of it from his window. He was fascinated by the sea's changeability, and his subject matter expanded from everyday life to the power of nature. Takeuji and Noriko Tsutatani both single out ''Shipwreck'' (''Hasen'', , 1929)Prints exist from more than one negative. One version can be see
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"80-nen no toki o hete kōkai sareru shashin reimeiki no hīrō Shiotani Teikō no zenbō" (; The full picture that took 80 years to be made public of Teikō Shiotani, hero of the early days of photography
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Contact, 2017. Takeuji is referring to the latter (plate 24 within '' The Age of Art Photography'', p. 50).
as a powerful seascape. Takeuji points out that it is very different from the "nostalgic landscape photography" popular at the time, but that its depiction of the wrecked ship and its horrified spectators also avoids expressing emotion and instead shows natural forces at work. Shiotani calculated that his photography from 1915 to 1935 had added up in the following way: still lifes, 2.5 (out of 10); human figures, 2.8; scenery, 3.6; animals, 1.1.This is typical of Japanese art photography of the time, as described by Ryūichi Kaneko, "The origins and development of Japanese art photography", chapter (pp. 100–141) within '' The History of Japanese Photography''. On various occasions he wrote of both the importance to him of
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, and the childishness of evaluating the landscapes that one sees. Also, that merely showing the exterior of "a piece of grass or a tree" was insufficient, and that the photographer "should attempt to capture the inner life hidden in its nature and to express it". One of Shiotani's better-known photographs is ''View with Weather Forecast''The title has been translated as ''Landscape with Forecasted Weather'' and ''Landscape with weather report''. (''Tenki yohō no aru fūkei'', ) of 1931. According to Shiotani's own account, he took the original photograph from his window, using his Vest Pocket Kodak. He trimmed it, and held the photographic paper curved during exposure under the enlarger, "rendering the feeling of that day of hard winds and stressing my first impression by djustingthe deformation of the curve". This exaggerated the convexity of the horizon, but Shiotani's manipulations continued: he bleached part of the sky area to emphasize the clouds, applied soot and oils to darken areas, and used an ink eraser to emphasize the white of the waves. The photograph was submitted for a contest in the January 1932 issue of ''The Photo-Times''; it won first prize, but only after the magazine's critic, Sakae Tamura, had said that it was unsatisfactory as submitted and had had its left and right edges trimmed.The photograph, titled in the orthography of the time, appears on p. 27 within "Katei shashin no kushi" (), by (read as Shūsei or Akio), on pp. 26–31 of ''The Photo-Times'', January 1932. A print of a wider view is widely reproduced, within for example Ryūichi Kaneko, "The origins and development of Japanese art photography", chapter (pp. 100–141) within '' The History of Japanese Photography'', plate 92 (p. 136). (Also widely reproduced is a print that, on inspection of the breaking waves, turns out to be from a different negative.) ''View with Weather Forecast'' is not unusual in Shiotani's oeuvre in its altered proportions. ''View with a Tunnel'' (''Tonneru no aru fūkei'', ) of 1930 is known both with horizontal compression (as shown here) and without. Although it has a "pastoral atmosphere" without the compression, one has "a sense of unease" when viewing the compressed version. Alterations such as those used by Shiotani were widely used by the
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for an effect of ''dépaysement'','' Dépaysement'' (Wiktionary). "The related concept of ''dépaysement'', meaning dis-placement or dis-orientation, informed the isolation, fragmentation, and close cropping often seen in Surrealist photographs." Jodi Hauptman and Stephanie O'Rourke,
A surrealist fact
(PDF). In Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, and Maria Morris Hambourg, eds, ''Object:Photo: Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art.'' New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014.
and Takeuji surmises from this and from Shiotani's occasional photography of cemeteries and human bones that he may have been an early exponent of Surrealism in Japanese photography, although Surrealism in the visual arts was little known in Japan until later (1937) and the degree of Shiotani's awareness of Surrealist trends overseas is unknown. Shiotani regarded himself as lucky to live in the provincial area of San'in, with its
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, rivers, Mt. Daisen and .Susumu Shiotani (), "Memories of my grandfather, Shiotani Teikō" (in English); "Sofu Shiotani Teikō no omoide" (in Japanese, ); respectively pp. 269 and 7 within '' Itoshiki mono e.'' Moreover, it had become an area of photographic excellence and experimentation. Younger photographers from the area followed in Shiotani's footsteps: most notably Yasuo Iwasa (), and a little later
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, who went on to enjoy great success. Among the legends about Shiotani was that he was such a perfectionist that retouching just two square centimetres of a print could occupy him for a whole day. Ueda stated that Shiotani's rate of success in contests and his skills made him something like a god.''Kami-sama ni chikai sonzai de atta'' (). Shōji Ueda, "Hajimete Shiotani-san ni" (; Mr Shiotani for the first time), non-numbered page between pages 75 and 76 of '' Album 1923–1973'', reprinted on pp. 6 and 268 of '' Itoshiki mono e'', in Japanese and in English translation respectively. (The title only appears in the table of contents at the end of ''Album 1923–1973''.)


Withdrawal

Shiotani gradually reduced his participation in photography at the national level during the 1930s. The last appearances of his photographs in ''Asahi Camera'' and ''The Photo-Times'' were in the October 1932 and June 1934 issues respectively. A series of twelve articles by him on techniques for ''The Photo-Times'' ended in September 1935.Six of these are reproduced in '' Itoshiki mono e'', pp. 250–265; all twelve in '' Teikoh Shiotani: The Legend in Art Photography'', pp. 209–226. Takeuji surmises that this gradual withdrawal was because his ''geijutsu'' photography was becoming eclipsed by the newer trend of more expressly modernist .''Shinkō shashin'' (, literally "new photography") "differed strikingly from Pictorialism, which had been the leading form of art photography in Japan. The goal of the New Photography movement, which flourished from about 1930 on, was creative expression possible only through photography, making effective use of the mechanistic nature of the camera and lens."
The magazine and the new photography: ''Koga'' and Japanese modernism
(PDF file, press release for an exhibition). Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2018.
In the mid 30s, Shiotani returned to photographs he had taken from 1923 to 1925, printing them with less detail than previously, for an abstract and dreamlike effect. A notable example is ''Bird's-Eye View of a Village'' of 1934.''Mura no chōkan'' (); photographed in August 1925; published in ''Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū'', October 1934, p. 155. In 1938, the Vest Club was renamed Shakenkai (), and Shiotani continued to participate in it. (Its meetings are known to have continued until September 1942, and in October 1949 it was revived in Shiotani's house.) After the war, Shiotani opened a photo studio next to his house and also continued photographing for his own interest, remaining faithful to his earlier subject matter but making rather larger prints than before and avoiding darkroom manipulation and retouching. He participated in some local exhibitions, but also submitted his prints to the exhibitions in Tokyo of the art organization Shinkyō ().


Later years

The emphasis by postwar Japanese photography publishing on the documentary rendered outmoded ''geijutsu'' photography as had been practised by Shiotani (and rendered "New Photography" outmoded as well). However, a 1968 exhibition of the first hundred years of Japanese photography "effectuated a great turning point in how photography was understood n Japanand established a comprehensive canon of photographers, thereby rewriting the history of Japanese photography": although it included no photograph by Shiotani, it did display 56 examples of ''geijutsu'' photography of the period.The exhibition: ''Shashin hyakunen: Nihonjin ni yoru shashin hyōgen no rekishi'' (; One hundred years of photography: The history of Japanese photographic expression), Seibu,
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, Tokyo, June 1968. The exhibits are listed in a catalogue of the same title: ; .
Shiotani was hospitalized from December 1974 to March 1975. The following month he had a one-man exhibition, ''Album 1923–1973'', in the Asahi Pentax Gallery in Tokyo. If the 1968 exhibition had revived public interest in pictorialist photography, then the book '' Album 1923–1973'', published in the autumn of 1975 and the first book devoted to Shiotani, made his photography widely known again, as well as prompting its acquisition by several museums. Edited by Shiotani's great admirer
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and printed and published in
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(Tottori), this was later one of only four booksThe other books: ''Yukiguni'' () by
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, ''Nojima Yasuzō isakushū'' () by Yasuzō Nojima, ''Tōkyō Shōwa jūichinen'' () by
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.
of pre-1945 photography to be profiled in
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and Ivan Vartanian's survey '' Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s''. During a visit to Japan in 1978, Lorenzo Merlo, head of the
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Amsterdam gallery, encountered ''Album 1923–1973''; the book so impressed him that Shiotani was included among "Eight Masters of the Twentieth Century" in an exhibition that was first shown in
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in 1979 and that subsequently travelled around Europe. During a stay in Japan in 1981, , who was planning photography exhibitions for
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, visited Shiotani in Akasaki; the next year, Shiotani exhibited, with 17 others, in '' Fotografie 1922–1982'', held as part of Photokina. Curated by Heiting and described by the reviewer for ''
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'' as "the ''pièce de résistance'' of the hotokinapicture shows, without a doubt" and a "magnificent exhibition", this presented Shiotani,
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and Jean Dieuzaide as three exponents of the ''Pencil of Nature''.Renee Bruns, "The picture shows", ''Popular Photography'', January 1983, pp. 66–68, 181, 195. This issue of ''Popular Photography'' is availabl
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''.
Susumu Shiotani () accepted a crystal obelisk at Photokina on his grandfather's behalf. The Photokina show led to publication in the magazines ''Camera Arts'' (US) and ' (France). Shiotani's inclusion in '' Photofest 1988'' (
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) led to a solo exhibition that toured seven US cities until 1990; a review of it said that Akasaki:
is hiotani'sancestral home, a fishing village in the Tottori Prefecture of central Japan, and his entire world.  . .The images are somehow gentle, like the passing of one season into the next or the process of growing older, a change that is never harsh or self-proclamatory – you just simply notice it one day. He has focused on the landscape, the people and the objects they use, framing them into harmonious compositions and imbuing them with affection.Patricia C. Johnson, "Three Japanese photography exhibitions are mounted here", ''
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'', 20 March 1988.
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Shiotani, "Shōwa mo gojū-nen" (; Shōwa and fifty years) '' Album 1923–1973'', reprinted on pp. 5 and 267 of '' Itoshiki mono e'', in Japanese and in English translation respectively. (The title only appears in the table of contents at the end of ''Album 1923–1973''.) – but in his eighties he continued to use the lens of the Vest Pocket Kodak, attached to a
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35 mm camera. Shiotani said to his fellow photographers:
You have to look for beauty close to hand. It is important that you find beauty in ordinary, daily life; there is no need to travel long distances to photograph. Subjects exist all around you. You must sharpen your sensitivity and discover the beauty in your local environment.
Shiotani died on 28 October 1988."Biography"; "Ryakureki" (); within '' The Age of Art Photography''. Pp. 136–138 (English); pp. 133–135 (Japanese).


Legacy

In 2014, hundreds of prints from the Shiotani family's collection, and many other related materials, were donated to the
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.''Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988'' (), Shimane Art Museum, 2017. According to the chief curator of the museum, "His work adbeen meticulously preserved for eighty years, this miraculous collection remaining in perfect condition." The Tottori Prefectural Museum also has a large number of his prints. , six books largely or completely devoted to his work have been published in Japan. In April of the same year, the opened in a building of the Shiotani family's in Akasaki. It is run by a
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, the Shiotani Teikō Photo Project (). Constructed in 1874, this two-storey building was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in November 2017.For photographs and other information, see
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery
, Japan Travel Planner, ANA. The building should not be confused with the Shiotani family house, built in 1906 and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan at the same time
*Tottori Prefecture Education Prize (''Tottori-ken kyōiku shō'', ), 1982. *Regional Cultural Merits Award (''Chiiki-bunka kōrōsha Monbu-daijin hyōshō'', ), 1983. *Distinguished Contributions award, Photographic Society of Japan awards"> Agency for Cultural Affairs.


Awards

*Photokina Prize of Honor, 1982. *Tottori Prefecture Education Prize (''Tottori-ken kyōiku shō'', ), 1982. *Regional Cultural Merits Award (''Chiiki-bunka kōrōsha Monbu-daijin hyōshō'', ), 1983. *Distinguished Contributions award, Photographic Society of Japan awards

, 1983. *Honorary citizen of Kotoura, 2010 (''Kotoura-machi meiyo chōmin jushō'', ), 2010.As of July 2019, Shiotani was the sole recipient of this honour. (responding to a question about the possibility of a similar honour for Shigeru Kobayashi), Kotoura Town.


Exhibitions


Solo exhibitions

*''Shiotani Teikō sakuhin-ten'' (; Exhibition of works of Teikō Shiotani). Akasaki Agricultural Management Center (Akasaki Nōgyō Kanri Sentā, ), Akasaki, September 1971. 200 works."Keireki" (, CV). ''Uminari no fūkei: Shiotani Teikō shashinshū'' () / ''Teikoh Shiotani Portfolio 1923–1973.'' Nikon Salon Books 10. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1984. P.3. *''Shiotani Teikō kaiko-ten'' (; Teikō Shiotani retrospective exhibition). Yonago Art Gallery U,
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, Tottori. October 1971. 50 works. (The gallery belonged to
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.) *''Shiotani Teikō meisaku-ten "Album 1923–1973"'' (<''Album 1923–1973''>; Exhibition of celebrated works by Teikō Shiotani, ''Album 1923–1973''). Pentax Gallery, Tokyo, April 1975. In conjunction with publication of a photobook. *''Uminari no fūkei'' (; Scenery of the sound of the sea). Ginza
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, Tokyo; followed by Shinjuku Nikon Salon,
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, Tokyo; and Osaka Nikon Salon,
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. 1984. In conjunction with publication of a photobook. *''The Photography of Teikoh Shiotani,''This is the title of the show at Los Angeles. The titles used for the earlier shows are not known, but a review of the show at Houston credits the photographs to "Sadayoshi Shiotani", and newspaper notices of the shows at Madison and Detroit credit them to "Teiko Shiotani". organized by the Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe,"a solo exhibition of hiotani'swork, which toured seven cities in the United States including Los Angeles, Detroit and Santa Fe until 1990."Tomoko Takeuji, "Shiotani Teiko and Art Photography"; within '' The Age of Art Photography''. Among the venues were the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, in February 1989 (see "Shiotani photos", ''
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'', 21 February 1989, p. 15), Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, in May–July 1989 (see Zan Dubin,
Pictorialist's art of '20s–'30s at Japanese Center
, ''
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'', 14 May 1989), and the
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, in August 1989 (see "Exhibits", '' Hillsdale Daily News'', 10 August 1989, p. 14).
*''Bijutsukan wo kangaeru 365-hi: Tottori kenritsu hakubutsukan shozō bijutsuhin-ten: Yonago-ten: Shashinka Shiotani Teikō no sekai 1'' (; Thinking about art galleries 365 days: Exhibition of the artworks in Tottori prefectural museum collections: Yonago exhibition: The world of the photographer Teikō Shiotani, 1).
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, July–August 2000. *''Bijutsukan wo kangaeru 365-hi: Tottori kenritsu hakubutsukan shozō bijutsuhin-ten: Kurayoshi-ten: Shashinka Shiotani Teikō no sekai 2'' (; Thinking about art galleries 365 days: Exhibition of the artworks in Tottori prefectural museum collections: Kurayoshi exhibition: The world of the photographer Teikō Shiotani, 2). ,
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, Tottori, July–August 2000. *''Bijutsukan wo kangaeru 365-hi: Tottori kenritsu hakubutsukan shozō bijutsuhin-ten: Tottori-ten Part 7: Shashinka Shiotani Teikō no sekai'' (; Thinking about art galleries 365 days: Exhibition of the artworks in Tottori prefectural museum collections: Tottori exhibition part 7: The world of the photographer Teikō Shiotani). Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori city, February–March 2001. *''Shiotani Teikō shashin-ten'' (; Shiotani Teiko photography exhibition). , Kotoura, Tottori, 2010. *''Shiotani Teikō kaiko-ten'' () = ''Teiko Shiotani's Retrospective.'' Manabi Town Tōhaku exhibition hall (; Kotoura, Tottori), November 2011. *''Shiotani Teikō sakuhin-ten'' (; Exhibition of the works of Teikō Shiotani). Manabi Town Tōhaku exhibition hall, Kotoura, Tottori, November 2012. *''Shiotani Teikō sakuhin-ten "Furusato to shizen wo shitau: Part II"'' (; Exhibition of the works of Teikō Shiotani: Longing for where I come from, and nature). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2014 – March 2015. *''Shirarezaru Nihon geijutsu shashin paionia Shiotani Teikō shashin'' () = ''Teiko Shiotani: Pioneer of Artistic Photography in Japan.'' Photo History Museum, Fujifilm Square, Tokyo, May–July 2015.Teiko Shiotani: Pioneer of Artistic Photography in Japan
, Photo History Museum Fujifilm Square, Fujifilm, 2015. Accessed 23 December 2019.
*''Shiotani Teikō no shijō'' (; The poetic sentiment of Teikō Shiotani). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2015."Sakuhin tenji" (; Exhibitions of works): 2015
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 24 December 2019.
*''Geijutsu toshite no shashin'' () = ''Pictorialism.'' Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2015 – March 2016. *''Geijutsu-shashin no jidai: Shiotani Teikō-ten'' () = ''Shiotani Teiko 1899–1988.'' Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Mitaka, Tokyo, August–October 2016. Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Kurashikku foto no tanoshimi'' (; The enjoyment of classic photos). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2016."Sakuhin tenji" (; Exhibitions of works): 2016
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 24 December 2019.
*''Shashin no bikan'' (; The beauty of photographs). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2016 – March 2017. *''Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988'' () = ''To Things Beloved: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988.''
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(Matsue, Shimane), March–May 2017. Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Shizen no kokoro, watakushi no kokoro'' (; Nature's mind, my mind). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2017."Sakuhin tenji" (; Exhibitions of works): 2017
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 25 December 2019.
*''Geijutsu shashin no ajiwai'' (; The taste of art photography). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2017 – March 2018. *''Yasashisa no jōkei'' (; Scenes of gentleness). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2018."Sakuhin tenji" (; Exhibitions of works): 2018
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 25 December 2019.
*''Shashin no omomuki'' (; The grace of photographs). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2018 – March 2019. *''Geijutsu shashin no 100-nen (I)'' (; 100 years of art photography (I)). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2019. *''Geijutsu shashin no 100-nen (II)'' (; 100 years of art photography (II)). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2019 – March 2020. *''Seitan 120-nen kinen: Shiotani Teikō'' (; 120th anniversary of birth: Teikō Shiotani). Shimane Art Museum, August–November 2019.Flyer for the exhibition, Shimane Art Museum. Hoste
here
by the Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 25 December 2019.
Accompanied by publication of a book. *''Seitan 120-nen: Geijutsu-shashin no kamisama Shiotani Teikō to sono jidai'' () = ''The Legend in Art Photography: Teikoh Shiotani and His Contemporaries.'' Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori City, November–December 2019.The "contemporaries" covered in the exhibition and catalogue:
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, Sōgetsu Yoshida (). (As an indication of the emphasis on Shiotani, 128 pages of the catalogue are devoted to plates of his work; 62 pages to plates of work by all the other photographers.)
Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Furusato to shashin'' (; The old village and photographs). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2020.Shiotani Teikō Photo Project, , Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 4 August 2022. *''Dō to sei no bi'' (; The beauty of movement and stillness). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2020 – March 2021. *''Oto o kanaderu shashin'' (; Photographs playing sounds). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2021.Shiotani Teikō Photo Project, , Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery. Accessed 4 August 2022. *''Monokuro ni miru shikisai'' (; Colours seen in monochrome). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, October 2021 – March 2022. *''Kaze no yuragi'' (; Swaying in the wind). Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery, April–September 2022.


Joint exhibitions

The list is selective, and omits mention of any of the exhibitions between 1926 and 1940. The chronologies provided in the 21st-century books about Shiotani give more information. *''Dai-ikkai besutan-ha Kōdai ten'' (; First new besu-tan group Kōdai exhibition). Pentax Gallery, Tokyo, 1973. *''Fotografia Giapponese dal 1848 ad Oggi.'' Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, January–February 1979. Travelling to
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, Jean Dieuzaide. Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Shiotani Teikō, Ueda Shōji shashin-ten'' (; Teikō Shiotani and
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, August 1983. 100 works by Shiotani, 185 by Ueda. *''The Art of Modern Japanese Photography.'' ''Photofest 1988.''
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, February–March 1988. Three simultaneous exhibitions: one of Shiotani (which proceeded to tour the US), one of
Shōji Ueda __NOTOC__ was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on ...
, and ''The Art of Modern Japanese Photography'', of work from 1920 to 1940 by 29 photographers, Shiotani (and Ueda) among them. *''Geijutsu shashin no jidai: Yonago Shayūkai kaikoten: Taishō makki — Shōwa shoki'' (; The age of art photography: Retrospective exhibition of the Yonago Photography Circle: From the end of Taishō to early Shōwa). Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Tottori, 1990. Five prints by Shiotani. Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Modern Photography in Japan 1915–1940.'' Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco. June–September 2001. Four prints by Shiotani. Accompanied by a catalogue. *''Shashin hyōgen no senkusha-tachi Shiotani Teikō, Ueda Shōji, Iwamiya Takeji, Kijima Takashi'' (; Teikō Shiotani,
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: Pioneers of photographic expression). Tottori Prefectural Museum (Tottori City), March–April 2013. *''Ueda Shōji to sono jidai: Seitan 100-nen'' (; Shōji Ueda and his time: 100th anniversary of his birth). Shimane Art Museum, April–July 2013. *''Japan Modern: Photography from the
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, Washington, D.C. September 2018 – January 2019.


Collections

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. Ten prints. *
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Shimane Art Museum The opened in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1999. Designed by Kiyonori Kikutake and with a total floor area of 12,500 square metres, it houses a collection of Japanese and Western art, including Momoyama folding screens and paintings ...
(Matsue, Shimane). * Tottori Prefectural Museum (Tottori City). *Mitaka City Gallery of Art ( Mitaka, Tokyo). *
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. Ten prints. *
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Photo Collection (Tokyo). One print. *
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( Brentwood, Los Angeles). Seven prints. *
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(Washington, DC). One print.An afternoon on the mountain
(catalogue entry), Smithsonian Institution. Accessed 3 August 2022.


Publication of Shiotani's works


Books largely devoted to Shiotani

*''Shiotani Teikō meisakushū: 1923–1973'' () = ''Album 1923–1973: Teikoh Siotani.'' Yonago, Tottori: Nihon Shashin Shuppan, 1975. Edited by
Shōji Ueda __NOTOC__ was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, who combined surrealist compositional elements with realistic depiction. Most of the work for which Ueda is widely known was photographed within a strip of about 350 km running from Igumi (on ...
; with texts by Shiotani, Ueda, , and
Eiichi Sakurai was a renowned Japanese photographer and a mechanical engineer. He graduated from Tokyo University Technology Department with a mechanical engineering degree, and soon after was recruited by Takachiho Works Co., Ltd.(predecessor to Olympus Opt ...
. ; . Despite the alternative title in English, captions and texts are in Japanese only. Publication was accompanied by an exhibition. *''Uminari no fūkei: Shiotani Teikō shashinshū'' () = ''Teikoh Shiotani Portfolio 1923–1973.'' Nikon Salon Books 10. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1984. ; . Despite the alternative title in English, text and captions are in Japanese only. With 95 plates (each on its own page), essays, an interview and other material; edited by
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. Publication (distribution to members of the Nikkor Club) was accompanied by an exhibition. *''Geijutsu shashin no jidai: Shiotani-Teikō-ten katarogu'' () = ''The Age of Art Photography: Shiotani Teiko Exhibition Catalogue.'' Mitaka, Tokyo: Mitaka City Gallery of Art and Mitaka City Sports and Culture Foundation, 2016. The catalogue of an exhibition. One hundred plates; all texts in both Japanese and English. Edited by Yūichirō Asakura () and Yuki Ōtake (); translated by Yukari Nakayama () and Tim Groves. . .There are bibliographic complexities. On the title page: ''The Age of Art Photography: Shiotani Teiko Exhibition Catalogue''; on the colophon: ''The Age of Art Photography: Shiotani Teiko Exhibition''; on the front cover: ''Shiotani Teiko 1899–1988''.
description of ''The Age of Art Photography''
from its publisher.
*''Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō: 1899–1988'' () = ''To things beloved: Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988.'' Over three hundred plates; most texts in both Japanese and English but some in Japanese only. Edited by Noriko Tsutatani (); translated by Gavin Frew. Matsue, Shimane: Shimane Art Museum, 2017. . . The catalogue of an exhibition. *''Yume no kageri: Shiotani Teikō no shashin 1899–1988'' () = ''Teiko Shiotani.'' Edited by Noriko Tsutatani. Tokyo: Kyūryūdō, 2019. . With 136 plates by Shiotani. For each plate, the caption and the name of the collection from which the print comes are provided in both Japanese and English; all other text is in Japanese only.Description of ''Yume no kageri''
from its publisher. An article about its publication: , ''Asahi Shimbun'', 16 November 2019.
Not a catalogue, but its publication accompanied an exhibition. *''Seitan 120-nen geijutsu-shashin no kamisama Shiotani Teikō to sono jidai'' () = ''The Legend in Art Photography: Teikoh Shiotani and His Contemporaries.'' onago, Tottori Imai Shuppan, 2019. . The catalogue of an exhibition. With 128 pages of plates by Shiotani. For each plate, a caption is provided in both Japanese and English; all other text is in Japanese only.Description of ''The Legend in Art Photography''
from its publisher.


Other appearances

A selective list, in chronological order: *"Shiotani Teikō sakuhin-sen (; Selected works of Teikō Shiotani). Pp. 35–42 within ''
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'', June 1976. Eight photographs by Shiotani (with a brief note by Shōji Ueda on pp. 130–131). *Attilio Colombo, Isabella Doniselli, Lorenzo Merlo, et al. ''Fotografia Giapponese dal 1848 ad Oggi.'' Bologna: Grafis, 1979. . Italian-language book accompanying a travelling exhibition. Pages 96–103 are devoted to "Sadayoshi Shiotani", and show seven of his photographs. *Attilio Colombo, Isabella Doniselli, Lorenzo Merlo, et al. ''Japanese Photography Today and Its Origin.'' Bologna: Grafis, 1979. . Book accompanying a travelling exhibition; introductory texts in English and French, other texts in English only. Pages 96–103 are devoted to "Sadayoshi Shiotani", and show seven of his photographs. *, ed. ''Fotografie 1922–82'' = ''Photography 1922–82.'' Cologne: KölnMesse, 1982. . In German and English; catalogue of an exhibition. Pages 223–235 are devoted to Shiotani, showing 31 of his works (24 of which appear on just two pages).The pages of ''Fotografie 1922–82'' = ''Photography 1922–82'' that are devoted to Shiotani are reproduced in miniature in '' Itoshiki mono e'', p. 221. *"Fotokina shashinten kara Shiotani Teikō no sekai" () = "World of Sadayoshi Shiotani: From Photokina picture exhibitions 'Photography 1922–1982'." Pp. 23–30 within ''Nippon Camera'', December 1982. Eight photographs by Shiotani (with a brief note by Takao Kajiwara on p. 121). * ''Geijutsu shashin no nenpu'' ( = ''The Heritage of Art Photography in Japan.'' Nihon shashin zenshū () = The Complete History of Japanese Photography 2. Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1986. . Despite its alternative English title, virtually all of the book is in Japanese only. Plates 115–120 (pp. 116–120) are by Shiotani. *''Photo Metro'', March 1988. Contains 13 pages devoted to Shiotani.The pages of ''Photo Metro'' that are devoted to Shiotani are reproduced in miniature in '' Itoshiki mono e'', p. 221. (''Photo Metro'' was published in San Francisco and distributed free of charge.) * Norihiko Matsumoto, ed. ''A Collection of Japanese Photographs 1912–1940.'' Tokyo: Shashinkosha, 1990. ; . Despite its English title, the book is in Japanese only. Plates 11, 16, 38 and 40 are by Shiotani. *''Geijutsu shashin no jidai: Yonago Shayūkai kaikoten: Taishō makki – Shōwa shoki'' (; The age of art photography: Retrospective exhibition of the Yonago Photography Circle: From the end of Taishō to early Shōwa). Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Tottori, 1990. Catalogue of an exhibition. Five plates, on pp. 22, 68–69. * Shigeichi Nagano,
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and Naoyuki Kinoshita, eds. ''Takayama Masataka to Taishō pikutoriarizumu'' () = ''Takayama Masataka and the Pictorialists of the Taisho Era.'' Nihon no shashinka 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1998. . Despite its alternative English title, the book is in Japanese only. Plates 24–31 are by Shiotani. *Deborah Klochko, ed. ''Modern Photography in Japan 1915–1940.'' San Francisco: The Friends of Photography, 2001. . Catalogue of an exhibition. The plates are not numbered but are alphabetically ordered by photographer; there are four by Shiotani. *. ''Une saison au Japon.'' Paris: La Martinière. 2009. . With five photographs by Shiotani. **''Japan: Season by Season.'' New York: Abrams, 2009. . English-language edition, with five photographs by Shiotani (on pp. 351, 356, 359, 364, 365). *"Hikari no tezawari 1929–40-nen: Nihon no kindai shashin (Noguchi Rika sen)" (; The touch of light 1929–40: Modern photography of Japan (selected by Rika Noguchi)), pp. 80–113 within ''Photographica'', vol. 21, Spring 2011 (special issue on Rika Noguchi). . Contains seven photographs by Shiotani.


Notes


References


Other books cited

* Kaneko, Ryūichi, and Ivan Vartanian. ''Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s.'' New York: Aperture, 2009. . * Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. ''The History of Japanese Photography.'' New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. (hardback); (paperback).


External links

*Shiotani Teikō Photo Project
Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery
(in Japanese) *Kō Ogawa ()
"Shiotani Teikō san to Okidomari, soshite sofu" ()
About Shiotani, Okidomari, and the writer's grandfather. {{DEFAULTSORT:Shiotani, Teiko Japanese photographers 1899 births Date of birth missing 1988 deaths Artists from Tottori Prefecture