Shōji Ueda (1913–2000) was a Japanese photographer known for carefully staged images made around the Tottori Sand Dunes, near his native Sakaiminato. From the 1930s onward, he arranged family, friends and objects within sparse landscapes, combining surrealism, modernist composition and playful theatricality. Darwin selects Ueda for a singular alternative to documentary photography: precise constructions where landscape becomes a stage and ordinary figures acquire an enigmatic, almost graphic presence.
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