Early Life and Artistic Beginnings Shiotani Teiko (塩谷 定好, shiotani teikō, 24 october 1899 – 28 october 1988) was a japanese photographer whose work in the late 1920s and early 1930s in and near Tottori Prefecture, where he lived, cemented his reputation as one of Japan’s foremost pictorialist artists. Born to a family involved in shipping—a profession that instilled in him an appreciation for precision and observation—Teiko’s fascination with photography began at the tender age of thirteen when he received a Vest Pocket Kodak camera from his father. This seemingly modest instrument would pro…