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Hiroshi Sugimoto

The Long Never

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000
Lot Details
The complete portfolio comprising one gelatin silver print Lightning Fields 304, on photo paper, backed with wove paper and with an overmat (as issued), and the artist's deluxe hardcover book comprising 65 illustrated images and original text by Jonathan Safran Foer, with silver silk cloth-covered boards and debossed title, all contained in the original aluminum case.
2014
Lightning Fields 304 I. 12 1/2 x 10 in. (31.8 x 25.4 cm)
Lightning Fields 304 S. 13 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (34.3 x 27.6 cm)
book 14 1/4 x 11 x 1 1/4 in. (36.2 x 27.9 x 3.2 cm)
case 21 x 18 x 1 5/8 in. (53.3 x 45.7 x 4.1 cm)
Lightning Fields 304 signed in pencil on the paper backing, with debossed numbering '12/25 19.304', additionally signed in silver ink and numbered 'twelve' on the colophon adhered to the interior of the hardcover book (from one of two deluxe editions of 25, the total edition was 360), published by Damiani Editore, Bologna, the book printed and bound in Italy, the gelatin silver print printed in the United States.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto

Japanese | 1948

Hiroshi Sugimoto's work examines the concepts of time, space and the metaphysics of human existence through breathtakingly perfect images of theaters, mathematical forms, wax figures and seascapes. His 8 x 10 inch, large-format camera and long exposures give an almost eerie serenity to his images, treating the photograph as an ethereal time capsule and challenging its associations of the 'instant.' 

In his famed Seascapes, Sugimoto sublimely captures the nature of water and air, sharpening and blurring the elements together into a seamless, formless entity.  This reflection of the human condition and its relationship with time follows through his exploration of historical topics and timeless beauty as he uniquely replicates the world around us.

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