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Shoji Ueda "Photos from Shiroi Kaze, Taken with a Vest Pocket Camera"
Fujifilm Square
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Shoji Ueda
Shoji Ueda (1913 – 2000) lived his whole life in his native home of Sai'in and, yet established new horizons in photography with a playful attitude that never lost sight of his amateur beginnings and a tenacity to experiment. Created with unique sensibility, his work is lauded across both generational and national boundaries, and continues to win the admiration of many even today.
During the Taisho Era (1912 – 1926) that got a young Ueda feverishly interested in photography, photographic art in Japan reached a pinnacle. At the time, a popular technique for producing a soft focus effect amongst amateur photographers was to remove the lens filter hood from a single-lens camera known as the “Vest Pocket Kodak” when taking pictures. The practice led to numerous photographic masterpieces and was similarly adopted by the adolescent Ueda for his black-and-whites.
Ueda resurrected this technique with a vest pocket camera half a century later when he produced his Japanese landscape series “Shiroi Kaze”. For the project, he used the latest color film available at the time, “Fujicolor F-II”. This exhibition puts on display 40 carefully selected original prints that Ueda submitted for the “Shiroi Kaze” photo album published in 1981 by Nihon Camerasha.
Venue: Photo History Museum
During the Taisho Era (1912 – 1926) that got a young Ueda feverishly interested in photography, photographic art in Japan reached a pinnacle. At the time, a popular technique for producing a soft focus effect amongst amateur photographers was to remove the lens filter hood from a single-lens camera known as the “Vest Pocket Kodak” when taking pictures. The practice led to numerous photographic masterpieces and was similarly adopted by the adolescent Ueda for his black-and-whites.
Ueda resurrected this technique with a vest pocket camera half a century later when he produced his Japanese landscape series “Shiroi Kaze”. For the project, he used the latest color film available at the time, “Fujicolor F-II”. This exhibition puts on display 40 carefully selected original prints that Ueda submitted for the “Shiroi Kaze” photo album published in 1981 by Nihon Camerasha.
Venue: Photo History Museum
Schedule | Jun 30 (Thu) 2022-Sep 28 (Wed) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://fujifilmsquare.jp/en/exhibition/220630_05.html | ||||
| Venue | Fujifilm Square http://fujifilmsquare.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 1F West, Tokyo Midtown, 9-7-3 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit 8 at Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo or Hibiya line, 5 minute walk from exit 3 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6271-3350 | ||||
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