Harry K. Shigeta was born in 1887 in Ueda, Japan. He came to live in Seattle, Washington at the age of 16. Throughout his life, he spent time in Minneapolis, Los Angelas, and Chicago where he worked in several portrait photography studios. In 1930 he partnered with fellow photographer George Wright to open the Shigeta-Wright Studio and became known for his modern and industrial photographs.
A photograph of a nude woman leaning on a wall behind the base of a ladder. Swirls of light are reflected across the wall from an overhead metal disk.
Additional Artworks
From Colorado Photographic Arts Center
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Mike Whiteley
Maggie, 2008
Pigment print
13.375 x 20 in
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G. Irving Brooks
Lord of the Andes, 1972
Gelatin Silver Print
11 x 13.5 in
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Ira Current
Main Line D. & R. G. W., 1949
Gelatin Silver Print
5.5 x 8.75 in
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Ralph Morgan
Lodi, N.J. Silk Strike in 1932 during Mustard Gas Barrage used by Police to Disperse Strikers, 1932
Black and White photograph
9.75 x 13 in
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L. Atwood
Man, 19th Century
Carte de Visite
4 x 2.5 in
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Christopher Rauschenberg
Luxembourg Garden
Gelatin Silver Print
9 x 6 in
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Jimmy Lee Schmalen
Lost Boys
Gelatin Silver Print
11.5 x 9 in
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Mathew Brady
Madame Catacazy - Russian Ambassador
Gelatin Silver Print
12 x 12 in
About the artist
Harry K. Shigeta
1887-1963