Magical images that defy time from the grand master of conceptual photography.

Through his expansive exploration of the possibilities of still images, the internationally renowned artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has created some of the most alluringly enigmatic photographs of our time; pictures that are meticulously crafted and deeply thought-provoking, familiar yet tantalisingly ambiguous.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is a comprehensive survey of work produced over the past five decades, featuring selections from all of Sugimoto's major photographic series, as well as lesser-known works that illuminate his innovative, conceptually-driven approach to making pictures. Texts by a collection of international writers, artists and scholars - including Geoffrey Batchen, Edmund de Waal, Mami Kataoka, Ralph Rugoff, Lara Strongman and Margaret Wertheim - will highlight his work's philosophical yet playful inquiry into the nature of representation and art, our understanding of time and memory, and the paradoxical character of photography as a medium suited to both documenting and invention.

Details

ISBN13: 9783775755320
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 216
Edition:
Publication Date: 19 Jan 2024
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication City, Country: Ostfildern, Germany
Dimensions (cm): 28(H)x24(L)1740
Weight (gm): 1740

Author Biography

The enigmatic works of Japanese photographer HIROSHI SUGIMOTO (*1948, Tokyo) fundamentally questioned the understanding of photography. He studied sociology and politics in Tokyo, before moving to Los Angeles to study photography in the early 1970s. In 1974 he settled in New York, where he created his first series Dioramas. His main artistic interests include architecture, abstract forms and intangible phenomena.

Reviews

Each body of work addresses the seen and the unseen, exterior and interior life, with deceptive simplicity.--Emily LaBarge "The New York Times: Arts"
Sugimoto's work reminds us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.--AX Mina "Hyperallergic"
Records made in and of time, these images nonetheless float free of their given moment, showing us what the world looked like before we existed, as it seems, and perhaps even what it will look like when we are no longer there.--Laura Cummings "Guardian"
His work has stretched and rearranged concepts of time, space and light that are integral to the medium.--Westall Mark "FAD"
Wonder is at the heart of it: a wonder at nature, man and creature, all through time, but also at the strangeness of photography itself. For these are pictures of what photographs may also be - the half-caught memory, the ghost in the machine, the shadow in time's eye.--Laura Cummings "Guardian"