Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Hiroshi Sugimoto Captures Time Itself Beautifully
In the spring of 2023, the Hayward Gallery in London presented a landmark survey of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work, drawing audiences who stood before his monumental gelatin silver prints in something close to reverent silence. It was a reminder, if one were needed, that Sugimoto occupies a singular place in the history of photography and contemporary art more broadly. Now in his mid seventies and still actively making work, he remains as philosophically urgent and visually commanding as ever, an artist whose images feel less like photographs and more like acts of meditation made tangible. Sugimoto… Continue reading
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Artists in conversation
Michael Wesely
Wesely similarly uses long exposure photography to compress extraordinary spans of time into single images, exploring how photography can make time visible in a deeply philosophical way.
Rinko Kawauchi
Kawauchi shares Sugimoto's meditative and minimalist sensibility in photography, investigating the ephemeral and the elemental through serene, carefully composed images that carry quiet philosophical weight.
Thomas Ruff
Ruff engages in rigorous conceptual investigations into the nature of photographic representation and perception, using large format prints to question what images can and cannot reveal about reality.
Artists who inspired them
Marcel Duchamp
Sugimoto has cited Duchamp as a major intellectual influence, drawing on his conceptual approach to art making and his questioning of what constitutes a readymade or reproduced image.
Man Ray
Man Ray's experimental and conceptual use of photography as a medium for surrealist and philosophical inquiry resonated deeply with Sugimoto's own investigations into the boundaries of photographic representation.
Edward Weston
Weston's mastery of large format gelatin silver print photography and his pursuit of pure form and timeless natural subjects laid important groundwork for Sugimoto's own approach to landscape and seascape imagery.
