Hiroshi Sugimoto: Five Elements
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographic Screens
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Photographic Screens
Hiroshi Sugimoto’s immense folding screens feature photographs of Japanese landmarks of sacred significance delicately printed onto rice paper. The screens, known as byobu, combine traditional and contemporary artforms, incorporating photographic techniques and materials to produce works that draw from Japanese artistic traditions, connecting the material cultures of antiquity and the contemporary.
Hiroshi SugimotoTateiwa
Hiroshi SugimotoMt. Fuji
Hiroshi SugimotoAmano Hashidate
Hiroshi SugimotoPine Trees
Hiroshi SugimotoHimeji Castle Screen imagined as the missing Kano Eitoku’s Lost Folding-Screen of Azuchi Castle
Hiroshi SugimotoKasuga Shrine, Kankitsuzan, Enoura
Hiroshi SugimotoLightning Fields 012
Hiroshi SugimotoKasuga Grand Shrine at Dawn
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.
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 053
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 033
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 058
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 067
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 176
Hiroshi SugimotoOpticks 076
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.”