Tag: japanese photographer


Teikō Shiotani :: Seashore of Akasaki Minatomachi, Kotoura, Japan, 1931 / source: Tottori Prefectural Museum

The horizon in this picture describes an arc just as if describing the globe itself. Incorporating the technique of deformation, the work was made by burning a negative image onto warped printing paper. The photograph was taken at the coast of Akasaki near photographer Shiotani’s home in Kotoura, Tottori. [quoted from source]

Teikō Shiotani :: Birds-eye view of the village, Shimane Peninsula, Japan, 1925 / src: Shimane Art Museum

Shiotani Teiko was a photographer who was representative of the era from the end of the Taishô period to the Shôwa period, in which pictorialism photography prospered. […]
It is an avant-garde expression that incorporates the cubism manner,
with the roofs of houses standing on steep slopes pointing in various
directions. [quoted from source]