Hiroshi Sugimoto: Colors of Shadow
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Opticks
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Opticks
These images depict the color of light Sugimoto observed through a prism in his Tokyo studio. Using Polaroid film, the artist recorded sections of the rainbow spectrum projected into a darkened chamber, paying particular attention to the spaces and gaps between hues. The resulting works, each measuring approximately 5’ framed, are vivid, near-sculptural renderings of pure light.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters
Perhaps his most iconic series, these long exposures of classic movie houses around the world are emblematic of Sugimoto’s time-eluding photography. “One afternoon I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera,” recounts Sugimoto. “As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture. When the movie finished two hours later, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening I developed the film, and my vision exploded behind my eyes.”
Hiroshi SugimotoOrinda Theatre, Orinda
Hiroshi SugimotoCinema Odeon, Firenze
Hiroshi SugimotoImax Tempozan, Osaka
Hiroshi SugimotoCarpenter Center, Richmond
Hiroshi SugimotoScottsdale Drive-In, Scottsdale
Hiroshi SugimotoStadium Drive-In, Orange
Hiroshi SugimotoMetropolitan Palace, Los Angeles
Hiroshi SugimotoRoyal, San Francisco
Hiroshi SugimotoPlaza, New York
Hiroshi SugimotoStudio Drive-In, Culver City
Hiroshi SugimotoPalais de Tokyo
Hiroshi SugimotoLos Altos Drive-In, Lakewood, Colorado
Hiroshi SugimotoSogetsu Hall, Tokyo
Hiroshi SugimotoCinema Teatro Nuovo, San Gimignano
Hiroshi SugimotoU.A. Fox, New York
Hiroshi SugimotoAzusa Drive-In, Azusa
Hiroshi SugimotoU.A. Belle Beau, New York
Hiroshi SugimotoRialto, Pasadena
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes
For more than four decades, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been photographing seascapes around the world. “A sharp horizon line and a cloudless sky– here began my consciousness.” writes Sugimoto, “From there my thoughts race to the origins of human consciousness itself. The sea reminds me that within my blood remain traces of human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years.”
Hiroshi SugimotoLake Superior, Jacobs Creek Falls
Hiroshi SugimotoLake Superior, Cascade River
Hiroshi SugimotoBay of Sagami, Atami
Hiroshi SugimotoYellow Sea, Cheju
Hiroshi SugimotoIonian Sea, Santa Cesarea
Hiroshi SugimotoNorth Pacific Ocean, Stinson Beach
Hiroshi SugimotoBass Strait, Table Cape
Hiroshi SugimotoLake Superior, Cascade River
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Lightning Fields triangulate Benjamin Franklin and Michael Faraday’s pioneering electricity research with William Fox Talbot’s discovery of calotype photography. In this body of work, Sugimoto seeks to capture and re-create these momentous innovations in the darkroom.
To create each image, Sugimoto uses a Van De Graaff 400,000-volt generator to apply an electrical charge directly onto film. The result in each case is a unique, instantaneous image of an electrical current, sometimes resembling a meteor shower, or a “treeing effect” on the film.