Explores the interconnected relationships of photography, science, and the history of art.Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Japan and New York. Since the 1970s he has investigated issues of time, empirical reality, and metaphysics through his photography. His main series have been Theaters, Seascapes, Dioramas, Wax Museums (Madame Tussaud's wax figures), and Portraits, all of which explore temporal existence and our relationship to history. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum, among many others. In 2001 he won the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation Award.This book is dedicated to Sugimoto's last and hitherto unpublished series, and accompanied an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. 52 illustrations, 8 in color.

Sugimoto

Arts & Photography

Thomas Kellein

Hiroshi, Sugimoto

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg, essays by Dana Friis-Hansen and Atsuo Yasuda (in English). Includes an exceptional collection of Sugimoto's day seascapes, night seascapes and a selection of images from the artist's work Hall of Thirty-Three Bays. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 94 pp., with 36 plates reproduced in tritone and quadratone, by Robert J. Hennessey and Meridian Printing, Rhode Island. The reproductions, especially the 26 quadratone seascape plates, are absolutely exquisite. This is the only book of Sugimoto's work whose reproductions do justice to the subtleties of the seascape images, especially the very dark night seascapes. One of the very finest publications of Sugimoto's work, including the most exquisite reproductions of the seascape series published to-date. 12 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Only 1000 hardbound copies were printed. Out of print. Very scarce. Published on the occasion of the 1996 exhibition Sugimoto at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Sugimoto (CAM, Houston and Hara Museum)

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and Hara Museum, Tokyo

A leading photographer, bestselling author and prize-winning designer lend their visions and voices to this unique collaboration. When renowned Hiroshi Sugimoto was invited to photograph the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, his attention immediately focused on an immense steel sculpture, Richard Serra's Joe, one of the artist's torqued spirals, which occupies a small courtyard of the museum. Joe allows viewers to walk in through a narrow passage between towering, sloping walls. The path leads to a surprising central space from which only the curving steel walls and the sky are visible. Combining extremely soft light and blurred darkness, Sugimoto's pictures in this book capture the elliptical nature of Serra's piece. His images are complemented by the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose affecting prose poem - about an "average Joe" experiencing the circular passage of time - echoes, without directly referencing, Serra's sculpture. Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, this beautiful, large-format book features tritone reproductions printed on luxurious uncoated stock. The result is an eloquent and visually arresting commentary on time, impermanence, and memory.

Hiroshi Sugimoto; Photographs of Joe

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

From the publisher: "Auguste Rodin brought monumental public sculpture forward into the modern era. Although educated in the academic traditions and idealized subjects of classical and Renaissance sculpture, he embraced truth to nature as his artistic credo. His uncanny ability to imbue inert substances with movement and feeling reveals the idiosyncrasies and psychological depths of the human subjects that he portrayed. His agile use of form and the bravura of his modeling in pursuit of turbulent, light-catching surfaces have established him as one of the progenitors of modern sculpture. Three monumental sculptures spanning the last thirty years of Rodin's career represent the force and vigor of his approach, which emphasized the quality of flesh while suggesting emotion through detailed, textured surfaces and the interplay of light and shadow upon them. The Three Shades (c. 1880), from the private collection of Iris Cantor, is an introspective group study in which the standing figure of Adam from The Gates of Hell is repeated in shifting perspective; Monument to Victor Hugo (1897), on loan from the renowned Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is a stirring meditation on artist and muse, a roiling figure composition that depicts the great artist deep in thought; The Whistler Muse (1908), on loan from the Musée Rodin, was intended to honour a commission in tribute to the American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler who had requested not to be physically represented - in response Rodin chose the symbolic image of the muse. Rendered like a classical fragment, the armless female figure attempts to climb a mountain in an allegory of the challenge of artistic creation. Rodin's sculptures are shown here in unexpected and unprecedented combination with a series of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of the world's most admired living photographers."

Rodin - Sugimoto

Wayne, Kenneth

AUGUSTE RODIN

Gallery

Rothko/Sugimoto - Dark Paintings and Seascapes

ROTHKO, Mark

Richard Schiff

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Hardcover. Photographically illustrated fine matt paper-covered boards (with a color image of a burning candle on the front cover), in a spiral binding, in a matte black stiff paper slipcase with silver lettering. This edition was limited to about 800 unnumbered copies. Unnumbered with 20 black and white plates reproduced on acetate (with white cards in between acetate reproductions), and a two-page gatefold four-color reproduction of a photograph of the exhibition installation. 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto of flames of a burning candle. This beautiful artist's book was printed by Korinsha Press & Co., Ltd., and is part of CCA Artists' Book series, conceived by Nobuo Nakamura and Akiko Miyake.

In Praise of Shadows

CCA Kitakyushu / Korinsha Pres

空間感/杉本博司　スター建築家の採点表 (CASA BOOKS)

<p>This catalog, produced in conjunction with Sugimoto's upcoming exhibition at the Izu Photo Museum in Japan, documents this important artist's recent investigations on the science and the presentation of photography. Documenting in detail Sugimoto's architectural and landscape design of the new Izu Photo Museum, the book is at once a reinvention of the artist as architect, as it is an insightful guide to Sugimoto's interest in the earliest beginnings of photography. Instigated by the urging of his friend, Pop art icon Richard Hamilton, Sugimoto went to England to visit the museum of William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative/positive photographic process. Finding common ground with Talbots' polymathic interests in art and science, this book details images from Sugimoto's Photogenic Drawing Talbot pieces, where Sugimoto reinterprets 15 unprinted negatives from Talbot's early studies, as well as 15 images from the artist's Lightning Field series. Includes text by critic Minoru Shimizu.</p>

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Nature of Light

Photography & Video

Ram Distribution

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated laminated stiff wrappers with French folds (published only in wraps). 206 pp. with 70 black and white plates. The reproductions are absolutely exquisite. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Foreword by Luis Monreal and essays (in English and Portuguese) by Kerry Brougher, Peter Hay Halpert, Jacinto Lageira and John Yau. Also includes an interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto by Helena Tatay Huici, an exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. Includes an exceptional collection of Sugimoto's dioramas, wax museums, theaters, drive-ins, day seascapes, night seascapes and a selection of images from the artist's work Hall of Thirty-Three Bays. One of the finest catalogues of Sugimoto's work published to-date, with a broad selection of all the series that have informed Sugimoto's work since 1976 (some previously unpublished, particularly the diorama series).

Reference

Kerry Brougher

John Yau

Jacinto Lageira

Peter Hay Halpert

Helena Tatay Huici

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fundación "la Caixa" and Centro Cultural de Belém

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