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Hiroshi Sugimoto
United Nations Headquarters
- Estimate
- $80,000 - 120,000
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1997
58 3/4 x 47 in. (149.2 x 119.4 cm)
Signed in ink, printed title, date and number 1/5 on an artist's label affixed to the reverse of the artist's frame.
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Catalogue Essay
"When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combined the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.”
-Hiroshi Sugimoto
-Hiroshi Sugimoto
Provenance
Literature
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Japanese | 1948Hiroshi 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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