was a Japanese amateur photographer in

Shōwa era The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. It was preceded by the Taishō era. The pre-1945 and post-war Shōwa periods are almost ...

Japan.

Life

Shiomi was born in

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, 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 The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also ...

Works

Publication

*Shiomi, Mieko. ''Shiosai: Mieko Shiomi Photo Works.''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". akarazuka ieko Shiomi 1964. A book of black and white photographs taken 1949–1963; no captions and almost no other text.

Gallery

Collection – TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUM
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– Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

– Collection works at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka City

Notes

References

*''Nihon no shashinka'' () / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . Pp. 208–209. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. *Yokoe Fuminori (). "Shiomi Mieko" (). ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . P.161. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. Japanese photographers People from Osaka 1909 births 1984 deaths Japanese women photographers 20th-century women photographers {{Japan-photographer-stub