Hiroshi Sugimoto

(Japanese, born 1948)

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.

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Posters of

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Posters of "End of Time" 1. Seascape:..., 2005

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Caribbean sea, Jamaica, 1980

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Caribbean sea, Jamaica, 1980

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Architecture (3 works), 2009

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Architecture (3 works), 2009

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White Rhinoceros, 1980

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White Rhinoceros, 1980

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Mechanical Form 0039 Internal gear, 2004

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Mechanical Form 0039 Internal gear, 2004

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IMAX TEMPOSAN, Osaka, 1999

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IMAX TEMPOSAN, Osaka, 1999

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Rialto, Pasadena, 1993

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Rialto, Pasadena, 1993

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Time Exposed #365: Black Sea, Ozuluce  (+..., 1991

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Time Exposed #365: Black Sea, Ozuluce (+..., 1991

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Mechanical Form 0039, 2004

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Mechanical Form 0039, 2004

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Hall of Thirty Three Bays, 1995

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Hall of Thirty Three Bays, 1995

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Sea of Japan, Oki IV, 1987

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Sea of Japan, Oki IV, 1987

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Regency, San Francisco, 1992

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Regency, San Francisco, 1992

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Casa Batlló, Antoní Gaudí, 1998

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Casa Batlló, Antoní Gaudí, 1998

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Bass Strait, Table Cape, 1997

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Bass Strait, Table Cape, 1997

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Tyrrhenian Sea, Amalfi, 1990

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Tyrrhenian Sea, Amalfi, 1990

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E.U.R. San Pietro e Paolo - Piacentini, 1998

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E.U.R. San Pietro e Paolo - Piacentini, 1998

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German Pavilion by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, 1998

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German Pavilion by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, 1998

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BALTIC SEA, RÜGEN' (TRIPTYCH), 1996

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BALTIC SEA, RÜGEN' (TRIPTYCH), 1996

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KINO PANORAMA, 1998

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KINO PANORAMA, 1998

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Kegon Waterfall, 1977

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Kegon Waterfall, 1977

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Norma Shearer (As Marie Antoinette), 1994

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Norma Shearer (As Marie Antoinette), 1994

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Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat, 1989

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Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat, 1989

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Time Exposed #325: Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido  , 1990

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Time Exposed #325: Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido , 1990

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Conceptual Forms 0003, 2004

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Conceptual Forms 0003, 2004

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