Jeremy Stigter - Visiting Mister Ueda

Jeremy Stigter
Visiting Mister Ueda

Published by Zen Photo Gallery, 2021
Size: 20.4 × 17 cm
136 Pages - 56 images
Softcover
Languages: French, Japanese, English
Limited Edition of 700 copies.
ISBN: 978–4–910244–03–7

This photo book represents a delightful and playful tribute to one of the great masters of Japanese photography: Shoji Ueda. Armed with a letter of introduction written in Japanese, Dutch photographer Jeremy Stigter visited Shoji in Tottori Prefecture in the fall of 1993. In it, Stigter posed three questions and requested that Ueda take his photographs in the nearby dunes that had served as the setting for so many of Ueda's unforgettable photos. Along the way, they picked up a collapsible umbrella that, unable to withstand the day's fierce winds, lent a touch of surreal humor to Stigter's images.
"It was only the announcement of his death in July 2000, at the age of 87, that reminded me of the work we had done together, and I thought it entirely appropriate to organize an exhibition showing the work that is now in this book."
- excerpt from the foreword by Jeremy Stigter

In addition to the series that Stigter and Ueda produced together, the book also includes photographs of Ueda's handwritten responses to Stigter's questions, short texts by Stigter on two trips to Tottori (once to photograph Shoji Ueda, the second time to visit the Shoji Ueda Museum), and an anecdotal text by Shoji Ueda's grandson, Yutaka Masutani.

- Text from the publisher.