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
.jpg "Gemsbok (from the series Dioramas), 1980")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Gemsbok (from the series Dioramas), 1980
Sale Date: February 14, 2013
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
The Origins of Love, Devonian Period, Earliest...
Sale Date: February 17, 2013
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Empire state building, shreve, lamb & harmon, 1997
Sale Date: November 5, 2012
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-(from-the-time-exposed-portfolio).jpg "Arctic Ocean Nord Kapp (#333) (from the Time , 1990")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Arctic Ocean Nord Kapp (#333) (from the Time , 1990
Sale Date: November 11, 2012
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.jpg "Time Exposed (case w/50 works), 1992")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
North Sea, Berriedale, Irish Sea, Isle of..., 1991
Sale Date: November 23, 2012
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,-from-the-series-architecture.jpg "Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier), , 1998")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier), , 1998
Sale Date: November 28, 2012
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,-from-the-series-architecture.jpg "Farnsworth House (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), , 2001")
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Farnsworth House (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), , 2001
Sale Date: November 28, 2012
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Los Altos Drive-in, Lakewood, From the..., 1993
Sale Date: November 28, 2012
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Orange Drive-in, Orange, From the Series..., 1993
Sale Date: November 28, 2012
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