Teikō Shiotani

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Teikō Shiotani, when 35 years old. He is wearing a yukata and faces the camera across a table. The sea is visible behind him.
Teikō Shiotani, 35 years old

Teikō Shiotani (Japanese: 塩谷 定好, Shiotani Teiko, 1899-1988[n 1])[n 2][1] was a photographer who worked near Tottori in the late 1920s and early 1930s.[1][2] He was a notable Japanese figure in photography.[1][2][3][4] As time passed, ideals and fashions of photography changed and his work in this field was almost entirely forgotten in Japan after war[5][6] until his works attracted interest because of a book in 1975 devoted to his work. He later became known outside Japan with the help of an exhibition of Japanese photography that travelled around Europe from 1979 to 1982.[1]

Some selected works[change | change source]

  • Geijutsu shashin no nenpu (芸術写真の年譜 = The Heritage of Art Photography in Japan. Nihon shashin zenshū (日本写真全集) = The Complete History of Japanese Photography 2. Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1986. ISBN 4-09-582002-0. 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.
  • Norihiko Matsumoto, ed. A Collection of Japanese Photographs 1912–1940. Tokyo: Shashinkosha, 1990. NCID BA73848507; OCLC 80195041. 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 (芸術写真の時代 米子写友会回顧展 大正末期〜昭和初期; 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.

Publications of his works[change | change source]

  • 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. Over three hundred plates; most texts in both Japanese and English but some in Japanese only. Edited by Noriko Tsutatani (蔦谷典子); translated by Gavin Frew. Matsue, Shimane: Shimane Art Museum, 2017. NCID BB23337252. OCLC 988732104. The catalogue of an exhibition.
  • Yume no kageri: Shiotani Teikō no shashin 1899–1988 (夢の翳 塩谷定好の写真1899–1988) = Teiko Shiotani. Edited by Noriko Tsutatani. Tokyo: Kyūryūdō, 2019. ISBN 978-4-7630-1920-2. 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. Not a catalogue, but its publication accompanied an exhibition.
  • 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. [Yonago, Tottori]: Imai Shuppan, 2019. ISBN 978-4-86611-176-6. 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.

Exhibitions[change | change source]

The list is some of the Selected Exhibitions.

Solo[change | change source]

  • Shiotani Teikō sakuhin-ten (塩谷定好作品展; Exhibition of works of Teikō Shiotani). Akasaki Agricultural Management Center (Akasaki Nōgyō Kanri Sentā, 赤碕農業管理センター), Akasaki, September 1971. 200 works.[3][7][8]
  • Shiotani Teikō kaiko-ten (塩谷定好回顧展覧; Teikō Shiotani retrospective exhibition). Yonago Art Gallery U, Yonago, Tottori. October 1971. 50 works. (The gallery belonged to Shōji Ueda.)[3]
  • Shiotani Teikō meisaku-ten "Album 1923–1973" (塩谷定好名作展<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.[3][8]

Joint[change | change source]

Notes[change | change source]

  1. ↑ Some sources say 22 October (an example: the chronology provided by the Teiko Shiotani Memorial Photo Gallery); others say 24 October (an example: the description provided by the publisher of Yume no kageri): both web pages accessed 24 January 2020.
  2. ↑ According to Hepburn romanization, Shiotani's adopted personal 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".

References[change | change source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Tomoko Takeuji, "Shiotani Teiko and Art Photography"; 竹氏倫子, 「塩谷定好と「芸術写真」」; within 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: 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 (in Japanese).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Noriko Tsutatani, "To things beloved – Shiotani Teikō 1899–1988" (in English); "Itoshiki mono e: Shiotani Teikō: 1899–1988" (in Japanese, 愛しきものへ 塩谷定好1899–1988); respectively pp. 270–279 and pp. 201–208 within Itoshiki mono e.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Shiotani Teikō to geijutsu shashin kanren nenpu" (塩谷定好と芸術写真関連年譜; Chronology of Teikō Shiotani and pictorialist photography), pp. 261–268 within Teikoh Shiotani: The Legend in Art Photography.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Shiotani Teikō nenpu" (塩谷定好年譜; Teikō Shiotani chronology); pp. 224–231 within Yume no kageri.
  5. ↑ "Teikō Shiotani: Teikō Shiotani: Album, 1923–1973: 1975"; pp. 178–181 within Ryūichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s.
  6. ↑ Ivan Vartanian, "The Japanese photobook: Toward an immediate media"; pp. 11–23 within Ryūichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Biography"; "Ryakureki" (略歴); within The Age of Art Photography. Pp. 136–138 (English); pp. 133–135 (in Japanese).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Keireki" (経歴, CV). Uminari no fūkei: Shiotani Teikō shashinshū (海鳴りの風景 塩谷定好写真集) / Teikoh Shiotani Portfolio 1923–1973. Nikon Salon Books 10. Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1984. P.3.

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