The Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, is a museum in Hōki, Tottori, Japan that is solely dedicated to exhibiting and archiving the work of the photographer Shoji Ueda.

The museum was founded in 1995. The collection consists of over 12,000 works by Shoji Ueda. The building was designed by Shin Takamatsu. The architectural relationships between volumetric solids and voids (as scaled incisions in the volume) function to frame Mount Daisen.

Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography

Gallery

See also

List of museums devoted to one photographer

References

Further reading

Cerver, Francisco Asenio. Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography in The Architecture of Museums, pgs. 162-170, University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography

External links

Official website

Photographs of the museum

Museums in Tottori Prefecture

Cultural organizations based in Japan

20th-century Japanese photographers

Museums of Japanese art

Art museums established in 1995

Photography museums and galleries in Japan

1995 establishments in Japan

Museums devoted to one artist

Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography