on the dunes in 1951, and from 1970 he used them as the backdrop for fashion photography. The postwar concentration on realism led by Domon, followed by the rejection of realism led by Shōmei Tōmatsu, sidelined Ueda's cool vision. Ueda participated in "Japanese Photography" at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1960 and had solo exhibitions in Japan, but had to wait till a 1974 retrospective held in the Nikon Salon in Tokyo and Osaka before his return to popularity. Ueda remained based in Tottori, opening a studio and camera shop in Yonago in 1965, and in 1972 moving to a new three-storey building in Yonago: Ueda Camera on the first floor, the Charanka () coffee shop on the second, and Gallery U on the third. The building served as a base for local photographic life. From 1975 until 1994, Ueda was a professor at Kyushu Sangyo University. Critical and popular recognition came from the mid seventies. A succession of book-length collections of new and old appeared. Ueda weathered the death in 1983 of his wife, and continued working well into the 1990s. He died of a heart attack on 4 July 2000. The Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography ( Ueda Shōji Shashin Bijutsukan), devoted to his works, opened in Kishimoto (now Hōki, near Yonago) Tottori Prefecture in 1995. In 2015, a retrospective was published featuring previously unseen works. The publishers were given access to 5000 unpublished photos and includes a short story by [Toshiyuki Horie]. Books of Ueda's works Den'en no utsushikata (). Ars Shashin Bunko 42. Tokyo: Ars, 1940. San'in no tabi (). Text by Shimomura Norio (). Gendai Kyōyō Bunko. Tokyo: Shakai Shisō Kenkyūkai Shuppanbu, 1962. Izumo no shinwa: Kamigami no furusato: Kamera no kikō (). Text by Ueda Masaaki (). Tokyo: Tankō Shinsha, 1965. Oki: Hito to rekishi (). Text by Naramoto Tatsuya (奈良本辰也). Tankō Shinsha, 1967. Dōreki () / Children the Year Around. Eizō no Gendai 3. Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1971. Black and white photographs, many but not all of which show children, arranged by season. Texts in both Japanese and English. Izumo jiryojō (). Text by Ishizuka Takatoshi (). Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1971. Shinwa no tabi: Izumo, Hyūga no furusato (). Text by Ueda Masaaki () et al. Nihon no Furusato Shirīzu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1973. Izumo (). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1974. Ueda Shōji shōryokō shashinchō: Oto no nai kioku (). Tokyo: Nippon