Lee Ming-tiao – Wikipedia

Taiwanese photographer (1922–2013)

Lee Ming-tiao (Chinese:李鳴鵰; 1922–2013), also referred to as Li Ming-diao and Lee Ming-diao, was a Taiwanese photographer.^[1][2] His work is held within the collections of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and he had a retrospective exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2009.

Lee was born in Daxi District, Taoyuan.^[3]

He and fellow photographers Chang Tsai and Deng Nan-guang are referred to as the “Three Swordsmen of Taiwanese Photography” or “Three Musketeers of Photography”.^[4] Active throughout the late colonial interval and the Sino-Japanese War, they travelled all through Taiwan, capturing “early Taiwan’s rural culture, religious rituals, and social conditions.”^[5] Lee’s work mixes the kinds of documentary and studio pictures: avenue pictures, in addition to rigorously organized lighting and composition, and staged pictures.^[6] In 1946 and 1947 he travelled throughout Taipei, photographing bridges.^[7]

• Lee Ming-tiao: Bridges of Taipei, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan^[7]
• Lee Ming－tiao Photography Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, January–April 2009^[8][9]

• The View of Formosa’s Landscape from Photographers, Taiwan Academy, New York, March–May 2015^[10]
• Tangible Times: Masters of Photography from the NTMoFA and NCPI Collections, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, December 2020 – February 2021. With Lang Jingshan, Deng Nan-guang, Chang Tsai, and Cheng Shang-Hsi.^[11]
• Crystalized Times: 2022 Centenary Memorial Exhibition of Photographers of Taiwan — Lee Ming-tiao, Dennis Okay. Chin, and Lin Chuan-tsu, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2021 – April 2022^[12]

Lee’s work is held within the following everlasting collections: