Hiroshi Sugimoto
(Japanese, born 1948)
Biography
Hiroshi Sugimoto is a contemporary Japanese photographer whose esoteric practice explores memory and time. Using the intrinsic quality of long exposure photography, the artist provides insight into how the medium can both obscure and alter reality. Influenced by Dadaist and Surrealist theory, Sugimoto’s Seascapes, Dioramas, and Theaters, craft mysterious scenes from vernacular subject matter. “Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world,” the artist said. “Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time.” Born on February 23, 1948, in Tokyo, Japan, he graduated with a degree in sociology and politics from Rikkyo University in 1970. The artist went on to receive his BFA in photography from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, before moving to New York in the mid-1970s. He was the recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 2001, and the subject of a mid-career retrospective in 2006 organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The artist currently lives and works between New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan. Sugimoto’s works are presently held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Hiroshi Sugimoto Artworks
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Diagonal clebsch surface, cubic with 27 lines, 2004
Sale Date: October 20, 2008
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.jpg "Time exposed (portfolio of 50 w/text), 1991")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time exposed (portfolio of 50 w/text), 1991
Sale Date: October 13, 2008
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.jpg "Seascapes (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1987–1993")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Seascapes (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1987–1993
Sale Date: October 13, 2008
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.jpg "U.A. Walker, New York (w/justif. card), 1978")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
U.A. Walker, New York (w/justif. card), 1978
Sale Date: September 11, 2008
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.jpg "Theatres (book w/96 works, & text), 2000")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Theatres (book w/96 works, & text), 2000
Sale Date: September 11, 2008
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.jpg "The origins of love (+ 8 works from diorama..., 2004")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
The origins of love (+ 8 works from diorama..., 2004
Sale Date: September 6, 2008
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mathematical form: Surface 0045 (Incl. Silk..., 2005
Sale Date: September 6, 2008
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mechanical form, material testing machine..., 2005
Sale Date: September 6, 2008
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time's arrow (Incl. Slipcased edition of the , 1987
Sale Date: September 6, 2008
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mathematical form 0004, Onduloid: a surface..., 2004
Sale Date: September 10, 2008
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