# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoji-ueda
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:33:15.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoji-ueda"
name: "Shōji Ueda"
slug: "shoji-ueda"
description: "Shōji Ueda  was a Japanese photographer from Tottori, best known for his distinctive, dreamlike black-and-white images with staged figures, taken on the Tottori sand dunes. The term Ueda-chō (Ueda-tone) has been used to refer to his cool and mysterious atmospheric style."
tagline: "Japanese photographer (1913-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Title_unknown_-_4_-_1949_-_Ueda_Sh%C5%8Dji.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1913-03-27"
deathDate: "2000-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.67
  momentum:             3.046153846153845
  historical:           6.392013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A3%D1%8D%D0%B4%D0%B0"
    title: "Сёдзи, Уэда"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%DA%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "شوچى ويدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Ueda"
    title: "Shōji Ueda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Ueda"
    title: "Shōji Ueda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Ueda"
    title: "Shōji Ueda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A4%8D%E7%94%B0%E6%AD%A3%E6%B2%BB"
    title: "植田正治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Ueda"
    title: "Shōji Ueda"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3107892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump