He was known as a ‘sedentary adventurer,spending much of his life shooting the sand dunes right by his house. But when the Japanese master photographer died, 5000 unseen pictures came to light. Every one is a stunning surprise, and as a breathtaking new book revealsThe word “surrealist” crops up a lot with reference to the powerful Japanese photographer Shji Ueda. It is not tough to see why. He is best known for his series Sand Dunes,in which he posed children and adults in the dunes near his domestic and photographed them as whether they were movable pieces in a giant film set.
He often appears in the series as a kind of clownish director, either alone or with his wife. This is photography about directorial control, and the black and white shots are stills from a film that only ever happened in Ueda’s head.
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Source: theguardian.com