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BEGINNINGS
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Beginnings is a presentation of the three projects that first landed Sugimoto on the map—Seascapes, Theaters and Dioramas.
Beginning in the late 1970s and spanning four decades, these pillars of Sugimoto's practice form the foundation of an oeuvre that now encompasses many disciplines. Embedded in these series are the questions that Sugimoto's work has continued to pose about the nature of time and human experience. Included in the exhibition are key works from each series, such as Sugimoto's iconic view of Radio City Music Hall, and his first seascape, made in Jamaica in 1980.
- Jeffrey Fraenkel recalls his first encounter with Hiroshi Sugimoto, and reflects on more than four decades of friendship.
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SEASCAPES
- Jeffrey Fraenkel discusses Hiroshi Sugimoto's first seascape, made in Jamaica in 1980.
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THEATERS
- Frish Brandt remembers facilitating Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs of movie palaces in California in 1992.
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DIORAMAS
- Frish Brandt speaks about the clash of reality and illusion in Hiroshi Sugimoto's Dioramas series.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in 1948 in Japan, and divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Primarily a photographer since the 1970s, Sugimoto has 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. Grounded in technical mastery of the classical photographic tradition, his work has explored the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces.
Aside from the three series exhibited here, Sugimoto’s major works include Portraits, Architecture, Colors of Shadow, Conceptual Forms, and Lightning Fields, among others. His photographs are in the collections of prominent museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, London; and others.
His work has been the subject of numerous monographs, and Sugimoto has been the recipient of awards including the National Arts Club Medal of Honor in Photography (2018); The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal (2017); Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2013); PHotoEspaña Prize (2006); Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2001); and the International Center of Photography’s Fifteenth Annual Infinity Award (1999). He is a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1980) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1982). In 2017, he founded the Odawara Art Foundation, dedicated to traditional Japanese and international contemporary performing arts.
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