Saint James, New Zealand
A hauntingly serene black-and-white photograph captures the vast expanse of the ocean meeting an overcast sky, divided by a perfectly centered horizon line. Sugimoto's long-exposure technique dissolves the water's surface into a silky, ethereal blur, evoking a meditative stillness that exists outside of time. The image belongs to his iconic "Seascapes" series, in which the artist reduces the natural world to its most elemental and timeless forms.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs Evening & Day
October 5, 2016
Collectors with works by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Artists in conversation
Michael Kenna
British · b. 1953
Kenna similarly employs long exposure black and white film photography to transform seascapes and landscapes into minimalist, meditative compositions where water becomes silky and atmospheric. His gelatin silver prints share Sugimoto's quality of distilling natural scenes to their most elemental and timeless essence.
Rinko Kawauchi
Japanese · b. 1972
Kawauchi creates deeply contemplative fine art photography that reduces the natural world to quiet, elemental moments suspended in a dreamlike stillness, resonating closely with the meditative and ethereal mood of Sugimoto's seascapes. Her work shares the same philosophical commitment to finding transcendence and timelessness within simple natural forms.
Lynn Davis
American · b. 1944
Davis produces large format black and white photographs of vast natural environments including ocean and ice landscapes that emphasize a monumental, elemental minimalism very close to Sugimoto's horizon centered seascapes. Her gelatin silver prints convey the same sense of geological timelessness and meditative stillness found in this specific work.
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