Hiroshi Sugimoto Guggenheim

Hiroshi Sugimoto Guggenheim. A guggenheim museum publication 2000 first edition japanese artist hiroshi sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and buddhist statuary. Portraits, initially created for the deutsche guggenheim berlin, traveled to the guggenheim new york in march 2001.

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Hiroshi sugimoto was born in tokyo, japan, in 1948, and lives and works in new york and tokyo. And the mori art museum in tokyo. In sociology and politics from st.

Art Of The 1990S From The Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art


Hiroshi sugimoto has two recurring obsessions: (182.2 x 152.4cm.) executed in 1997, this work is number two from an edition of five Portraits is the fourth in a series of books on sugimoto’s major bodies of work and presents 70 photographs, 7 of which have never before been published.

From Edouard Simoens Gallery, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2000), Gelatin Silver Print, Mounted On Board, 58.5 × 47 Cm


Reflecting on childhood memories, sugimoto feels he gathered images and sensations that he would later explore through art. The japanese photographer emerged in the ’80s as one of the best of a new generation of artists, including andreas gursky, cindy sherman, and jeff wall, who transformed the medium of photography from a craft into a major art form. By virtue of their blurriness and lack of color, the images strip down buildings to their essence, what we might imagine was the architect's first, pure vision of form.

1980 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.


Tel aviv museum of art, tel aviv. Artistic direction and set and costume designer: Paul’s university in tokyo in 1970.

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1970 graduated from saint paul’s university, tokyo. Primarily a photographer since the 1970s, sugimoto more recently added performing arts production and architecture to his multidisciplinary practice, which deals with history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. Staircase at villa farnese ii, 2016.

Collection Online | Hiroshi Sugimoto.


In 2006, a mid career retrospective was organized by the hirshhorn museum in washington, d.c. Situated on the ground floor of a sandstone building owned by deutsche bank,. In 1970, sugimoto studied politics and sociology at rikkyō university in tokyo.