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Maker Shigemi Uyeda (American, 1902 - 1980)

Additional Title(s)

Man walking and couple on beach in park

ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS

Date1920-1929

Mediumsilver print

Dimensions3 1/4 x 3 1/8 in. (8.3 x 7.9 cm.)

SignedSigned on verso in graphite: Shigemi M. Uyeda

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Label TextPhotographer Shigemi Uyeda (1902-1980) immigrated to the United States at age fifteen, working in farming in the Central Valley, and later, in Lancaster. He was part of the artistic community of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo in the 1920s and 30s.

This picture is small in size because it is a contact print—made by exposing the negative directly onto photographic paper, without using an enlarger. Uyeda stored his contact prints in albums that mixed his art photography with more intimate family snapshots. According to scholar Dennis Reed, this picture shows Hollenbeck Park in Boyle Heights. It was likely taken during a camera club outing, as the photographer Taizo Kato captured a similar scene he titled Sunlight and Shadow.

Object number86.29.1