Mieko Shiomi
Osaka, 1909 – 24 August 1984 was a Japanese amateur photographer in Shōwa era Japan.
Also recorded as Shiomi Mieko · Mie Shiomi · Shiomi Mie
Mieko Shiomi
- Born
- 1909 · Osaka.
- Died
- 1984
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Osaka, 1909 – 24 August 1984 was a Japanese amateur photographer in Shōwa era Japan.
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Life
Life
Shiomi was born in Osaka, and graduated from Shimizudani Girls' High School in 1927 (Shōwa 2). Shiomi joined the Tampei Photography Club in 1948, and thereafter joined two other photography groups while also exhibiting in the Nikakai Photography Section. At the start she tended to abstraction; in the late 1950s she moved toward realism in depicting what she saw in her daily life; in the 1960s she moved back to abstraction. Shiomi is particularly highly praised for her compositions and delicate use of monochrome, and capture moments of people's usual actions. She takes high-quality photographs from abstraction to realism. Shiomi's works are held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Publication
Publication
• Shiomi, Mieko. Shiosai: Mieko Shiomi Photo Works. [Takarazuka]: [Mieko Shiomi], 1964. A book of black and white photographs taken 1949–1963; no captions and almost no other text.
Gallery
Gallery
• Collection – TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUM – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography • San-Patsu – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography • 汐見美枝子 ： 作家データ＆資料一覧 | 所蔵作品 | 大阪中之島美術館コレクション（旧・大阪新美術館） – Collection works at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka City
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Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that mieko Shiomi is recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that mieko Shiomi is recorded as a citizen of Japan. Recorded with the gender female. Born on 1 January 1909. Shiomi died on 24 August 1984.
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- “Mieko Shiomi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3950748: Mieko Shiomi
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- 1.Collection – TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUMTokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
- 2.E.g. by Yokoe.
- 3.nihongo The Kyoto Shimbun 京都新聞 (Kyoto Shimbun local daily newspaper in Japan) 16 February 2008 " nihongo 写真の美術/美術の写真－「浪華」「丹平」から森村泰昌まで" Art of Photography / Photography of Art-From "Naniwa Photography Club" "Tanpei Photography Club" to Yasumasa Morimura in lang ja
- 4.As implied by her inclusion in Nihon shashinka jiten.
- 5.A bibliographic conundrum. Unlike most Japanese books, this lacks a formal colophon. The title page says "Mieko Shiomi Photo Works", and the dust cover says on the spine "Shiosai" and on the front "Shiosai / Mieko Shiomi Photo Works".
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