Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat
Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat' is a gelatin silver print from his famous seascape series. The photograph captures the horizon line in minimalist composition, exploring themes of time, nature, and photographic representation.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 4, 2019
Collectors with works by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Artists in conversation
Michael Kenna
British · b. 1953
Kenna creates minimalist black and white landscape photographs with long exposures that reduce water and sky to serene, meditative tonal gradations, closely mirroring Sugimoto's contemplative approach to seascapes and horizon lines.
Axel Hütte
German · b. 1951
Hütte produces large format monochrome landscape photographs that strip natural scenes to their essential forms, sharing Sugimoto's interest in minimalist composition and the philosophical weight of water and sky as subjects.
Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong
American · b. 1970
Leong photographs expansive natural landscapes with a quiet, contemplative sensibility and strong compositional restraint, echoing the serene minimalism and meditative quality found in Sugimoto's ocean horizon series.
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