1913 Born in Sakaimachi, Tottori.

1931 Joins the Yonago Photography Circle.

1932 Studies under Toyo Kikuchi at the Oriental School of Photography, Tokyo.

1937 Co-founds the Chugoku Photographers Group

1947 Becomes a member of Ginryusha, a group of professional and amateur photographers established in postwar Tokyo.

1958 His works are selected by Edward Steichen for exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1975-94 Teaches photography at Kyushyu Sangyo University, Fukuoka.

1995 The Ueda Shoji Museum of Photography opens in Tottori prefecture.

1996 Awarded the order of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French goverment.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1979 Japan, A Self Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York

1984 Fifty Years of Photography of Ueda Shoji, Pentax Forum, Tokyo.

1986 Le Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

1990 Shoji Ueda, Museum d'Elysee, Lausanne.