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
Austrian Post Office Savings Bank, 2001
Sale Date: September 19, 2017
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.jpg "Ionian Sea IV, Santa Cesarea (Night), 1993")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Ionian Sea IV, Santa Cesarea (Night), 1993
Sale Date: September 15, 2017
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.jpg "Time Exposed #339: Tyrrhenian Sea, Positano..., 1990")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time Exposed #339: Tyrrhenian Sea, Positano..., 1990
Sale Date: August 22, 2017
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-(12-works).jpg "Seascapes (from Time Exposed) (12 works), 1980")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Seascapes (from Time Exposed) (12 works), 1980
Sale Date: July 19, 2017
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.jpg "Time Exposed #310: Sea of Japan, Oki (+ 3..., 1987")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time Exposed #310: Sea of Japan, Oki (+ 3..., 1987
Sale Date: July 11, 2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time Exposed #312 Pacific Ocean, Oregon, 1985
Sale Date: July 19, 2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Time Exposed #325 Sea of Okhostk, Hokkaido, 1989
Sale Date: July 19, 2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Saint Benedict Chapel from the series..., 2000
Sale Date: July 19, 2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Seascape: Lake Superior, Cascade River, 2005
Sale Date: July 15, 2017
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.jpg "COLOURS OF SHADOW (C1019), 2006")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
three works from the Time Exposed..., 1990–1991
Sale Date: June 22, 2017
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.jpg "Chiesa Rossa (Red Church), 1998")
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