Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese/American, born 1948)
Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto left Japan for Los Angeles in 1970. There he became inspired by the universal facets of Minimalist painting and sculpture which came to dominate his work. His photographs have explored the aesthetic and conceptual boundaries of photography for more than thirty years. Through the use of a large-format camera and extremely long exposures, Sugimoto explores his themes through a rigorous use of continuality. Sugimoto captures what is elusive to sight, stimulating intellect and vision through his dramatic minimal images of oceans, architecture, movie screens, natural history dioramas, Buddhist sculptures as well as wax portraits.
Information courtesy of Sotheby’s May 2008.