Hiroshi Sugimoto - Photographs New York Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    photo-eye Books, Santa Fe, 1995

  • Artist Biography

    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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Time Exposed

Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., 1991
Fifty-one offset lithographs.

Fifty prints approximately 9 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (24.1 x 30.8 cm). One print 2 x 15 in. (5.08 x 38.1 cm)
Each with blindstamp title, date and number on the mount. Title page. Colophon. Enclosed in an aluminum folio case. One from an edition of 500.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $30,240

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Photographs

New York Auction 7 October 2021