My Wife on the Dunes, by Shoji Ueda

Ueda (1913–2000) is among the groundbreaking 20th-century photographers featured in a Smithsonian exhibition staged to celebrate the Freer | Sackler Asian art galleries’ recent acquisition of a major picture collection. Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection is on show at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery , Washington DC, until 21 January