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Ueda Shoji Retrospective
January 18 – March 1, 2020
Exhibition: Ueda Shoji: Retrospective
Exhibition Venue: Huashan 1914 Creative Park W-5
Exhibition Dates: January 18 – March 1, 2020
Exhibition Opening Hours: 10AM – 6PM
Press Preview: January 17, 2020 | 1-3PM
Press Tour with Curator: January 17, 2020 | 2PM
Opening Reception: January 17, 2020 | 6PM

Souvenir Ticket
Souvenir tickets feature Ueda Shoji’s pre-war masterpiece “Four Girls Posing” and are a limited edition of1,000. Souvenir tickets go on sale December 1 for the special price of NTD 250 (originally NTD 350) for

the first 10 days. Exclusively available through ibon.
Early Bird Ticket
Early Bird tickets go on sale December 11 for NTD 180 (originally NTD 280). Available through ibon,UDN, and Books.com.tw
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Each Modern is pleased to announce “Ueda Shoji : Retrospective” a large-scale retrospective exhibition of theJapanese photography master Ueda Shoji, opening January 18, 2020, at Huashan Cultural Creative Park W-5. Thisis the first commemorative exhibition of Ueda Shoji in 20 years since his death, and is co-organized with the Shoji
Ueda Office. The exhibition is curated by Sato Masako, curator of renowned photographer Robert Doisneau andSaul Leiter, and features140 hand printed vintage works from the Ueda Shoji’s family collection, as well as rare
8mm film footage and seminal photo books. Early Bird discount ticket sales will begin on December 11, 2019. alimited-edition souvenir ticket featuring Ueda Shoji’s pre-war masterpiece "Four Girls Posing" will be available onDecember 1 as well.

“Ueda Shoji : Retrospective” will feature works that span the early 1930s to the photographer’s final 1999
work Black Wave; giving visitors a comprehensive survey of Udea Shoji’s eclectic 70-year practice. Of the 140
vintages works, with the exception of the color works, all black and white photographs were hand-printed bythe photographer himself. The 11 series on display reveal the photographer’s love and pursuance ofphotography. As illuminated in the exhibition guide by curator Sato Masako one can clearly see the ups anddowns of Photography in Japan before and after World War II: it can be said that the life of Ueda Shoji reflects
the development of Japanese photography.

On January 8, 2020, “Kako's Tale of the Photography and Life of Ueda Shoji” written by Ueda Shoji’s mostbeloved model, his daughter Masutani Kazuko, will be published in Traditional Chinese. Starting January 15,2020, “Amateur Forever,” an exhibition of rare photo books, curated by rare second-hand photo book shop
nitesha, will be exhibited at nitesha BGTP book gallery inside Each Modern. On January 18, 2020, grandson
to the photographer and representative of the Shoji Ueda Office, Masutani Masahiro will participate in theIdeas Program stage of Taipei Dangdai, sharing with the audience Ueda Shoji’s artistic career and the Shoji
Ueda Office mission. Each Modern will also be presenting numerous rare works by Ueda Shoji at the gallery’sbooth at Taipei Dangdai.
In 2020, let us immerse ourselves in the elegance of “Ueda-cho,” and relive the master’s surrealism,tenderness, ingenuity, fashion, and life.
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About the Artist

Ueda Shoji (1913-2000), renowned for his masterpieces set in thesand dunes around his native Tottori, left a major mark on the historyof photography in not only his home country, but also internationally.
His strain of modernism was so particular that the resulting so-called“Ueda-cho (Ueda style)” continues to be the object of critical acclaim
to this day.
When he was young, before the First World War, avant-garde art hadrisen in prominence across Japan, but Ueda Shoji worked diligently in his
hometown all his life, and remained unaffected by trends or movements,choosing to only pursue the art he recognized. Ueda Shoji preferred toshoot landscapes: his hometown, family, and surroundings. His
photography always maintained a degree of warmth, leaving a lasting
meaning in quality, time, and culture. Because of this, his photography isunique and unparalleled, so much so that the so-called “Ueda-cho” stylecontinues to charm audiences a hundred years later.

Ueda Shoji, A Cat and Me, c.1949 ©Shoji Ueda Office

Influenced by the emerging Western art of his adolescence, Ueda maintained the passionate, uninhibited spirit ofan amateur while he ran a photography center in his hometown. His intricate compositions – prime examples ofstaged photography – featured his family and his close friends in his neighborhood sand dunes, arranged like chesspieces. “This is how some of the people criticize staged photography: ‘everything should be natural, even act
naturally. In this case, staged photography is fake.’ However, the most important part is to capture the realreaction of people while facing the camera. That is the general standard of all time.

Ueda Shoji, born in Tottori Prefecture, Japan, in 1913, started his career as a photographer by contributing to earlyphoto magazines in the 1930s. He cemented his reputation with intricately staged photographs in the Tottori sanddunes before tilting towards realism during the 1950s; continuing to garner acclaim with photobooks like “Childrenthe Year Around,” published in 1971. In 1972 he traveled to Europe for the first time and published “Memorieswithout Sound (Oto no nai kioku).” He was invited to participate in Les Rencontres d’Arles in 1978 and 1987.
His works are highly rated abroad, having steadily built a reputation among European collectors and critics inparticular. In 1996, he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He died at the age of 87 in 2000.

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Ueda Shoji Retrospective
Exhibition Venue: Huashan 1914 Creative Park W-5
Exhibition Dates: January 18 – March 1, 2020(close on the Chinese New Year Eve)
Exhibition Opening Hours: 10AM – 6PM
Press Preview: January 17, 2020 | 1-3PM
Press Tour with Curator: January 17, 2020 | 2PM
Opening Reception: January 17, 2020 | 6PM

Organizer: Each Modern

https://eachmodern.com/Co-Organizer: Shoji Ueda Office
Curator: Contact, Co.Ltd

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Partner: Three Shadows Photographer Art Centre

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Executor: Goldilocks Production

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Souvenir Ticket
Souvenir tickets feature Ueda Shoji’s pre-war masterpiece “Four Girls Posing” and are a limited edition of1,000. Souvenir tickets go on sale December 1 for the special price of NTD 250 (originally NTD 350) on

the first 10 days. Exclusively available through ibon.
Early Bird Ticket
Early Bird tickets go on sale December 11 for NTD 180 (originally NTD 280). Available through ibon,UDN, and Books.com.tw

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