Mieko Shiomi Explained

^[1] was a Japanese amateur photographer in Shōwa era Japan.

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^[2] 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.^[3]

Shiomi's works are held in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.^[4]

Works

Publication

Shiomi, Mieko. Shiosai: Mieko Shiomi Photo Works.^[5] [Takarazuka]: [Mieko Shiomi], 1964. A book of black and white photographs taken 1949–1963; no captions and almost no other text.

Gallery

Collection – TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUM – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
- – 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

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.

Notes and References

https://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/app/collection/list?&lang=en&start=23380 Collection – TOKYO DIGITAL MUSEUM
E.g. by Yokoe.
(local daily newspaper in Japan) 16 February 2008 "
As implied by her inclusion in Nihon shashinka jiten.
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".