Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas by Sugimoto, Hiroshi
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas by Sugimoto, Hiroshi

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

A study in dioramas four decades in the making, Sugimoto's photographs explore the stylized reality of museum-made...
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Author: Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Language: English
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas by Sugimoto, Hiroshi

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

$147.23
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas by Sugimoto, Hiroshi

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

$147.23
Author: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A study in dioramas four decades in the making, Sugimoto's photographs explore the stylized reality of museum-made habitats and what they reveal about nature and the power of photography to document the natural world." -Phil Bicker, Time Lightbox

Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) began his four-decade-long series Dioramas in 1974, inspired by a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Surrounded by the museum's elaborate, naturalistic dioramas, Sugimoto realized that the scenes jumped to life when looked at with one eye closed. Recreated forestry and stretches of uninhabited land, wild, crouching animals against painted backgrounds and even prehistoric humans seemed entirely convincing with this visual trick, which launched a conceptual exploration of the photographic medium that has traversed his entire career. Focusing his camera on individual dioramas as though they were entirely surrounding scenes, omitting their frames and educational materials and ensuring that no reflections enter the shot, his subjects appear as if photographed in their natural habitats. He also explores the power of photography to create history--in his own words, photography functions as a fossilization of time. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas narrates a story of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, from prehistoric aquatic life to the propagation of reptile and animal life to Homo sapiens' destruction of the earth, circling back to its renewal, where flora and fauna flourish without man. Here Sugimoto writes his own history of the world, an artist's creation myth.

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where he studied politics and sociology at Rikkyõ University, later retraining as an artist at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, CA. He currently lives in New York and Tokyo.

Author: Hiroshi Sugimoto
Publisher: Damiani Ltd
Published: 09/30/2014
Pages: 118
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 11.20h x 10.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9788862083270
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