About The Book
Following a career that has focused on formal studies of museum dioramas, cinema interiors, and exquisite seascapes, Sugimoto accepted a commission from the Guggenheim to create a series of life-size black-and-white portraits of waxwork figures. His latest method of working enables him to take pictures of people who existed long before the invention of the camera. John Stevenson
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About The Artist
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in 1948 in Japan, and divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Working in photography since the 1970s, his multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performing arts production, and architecture. His work explores history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. Grounded in technical mastery of the classical photographic tradition, he examines the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces. Fraenkel Gallery
Videos: (1) Hiroshi Sugimoto – Kontaktabzüge (arte-Reihe) (2) Hiroshi Sugimoto in “Memory” – Season 3 | “Art in the Twenty-First Century”
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Specifics
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000) | English | 170 pages.
Source: https://archive.org/details/sugimotoportrait0000sugi.
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