Main entry:

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- artist.

Title & Author:

Hiroshi Sugimoto : Dioramas / designed by Takaaki Matsumoto.

Publication:

New York : Pace Gallery in association with Damiani, 2014.

Description:

117 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition - Hiroshi Sugimoto : Still Life - Pace Gallery, May 9 - June 28, 2014. 510 West 25th Street, New York."
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life includes Polar Bear (1976), his first photograph from the Diorama series, exhibited along with later works from the 1980s, 1990s, and, most recently 2012. Where many of the earlier silver gelatin prints present animals, a number of the 2012 photographs including Mixed Deciduous Forest and Olympic Rain Forest focus on natural landscapes. He has likened the record created by photography to a process of fossilization - the evidence of a moment suspended in time.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition, "Still Life," held at Pace Gallery, New York, May 9-June 28, 2014.
Dust jacket.
In English; essay "Unnatural nature" translated from the original Japanese.

Summary:

'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life' includes 'Polar Bear' (1976), his first photograph from the Diorama series, exhibited along with later works from the 1980s, 1990s, and, most recently 2012. Where many of the earlier silver gelatin prints present animals, a number of the 2012 photographs including Mixed Deciduous Forest and Olympic Rain Forest focus on natural landscapes. He has likened the record created by photography to a process of fossilization - the evidence of a moment suspended in time.
"Hiroshi Sugimoto began to photograph his Dioramas series, a body of work that spans almost four decades, when he moved to New York City from Japan in 1974. While looking at the galleries in the American Museum of Natural History, he noticed that if he looked at the dioramas with one eye closed, the artificial scenes--prehistoric humans, dinosaurs, and taxidermied wild animals set in elaborately painted backgrounds--looked utterly convincing. This visual trick launched his conceptual exploration of the photographic medium, which continues today. Through his career, Sugimoto has addressed the photograph's power to create a history. He has said, "photography functions as a fossilization of time." In the Dioramas series, Sugimoto persuades the viewer that the photographer has captured a lived moment in time, although each scene is an elaborately crafted fiction. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas narrates a story of the cycle of life, death and rebirth, from prehistoric aquatic life to the propagation of reptile and animal life to homo sapiens' destruction of the planet--and then to a renewal of the earth, where flora and fauna flourish without man. Here Sugimoto writes his own history of the world, an artist's creation myth."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9788862083270 (hardcover)
8862083270 (hardcover)

Subject:

Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948- Exhibitions.
Sugimoto, Hiroshi, 1948-
Sugimoto, Hiroshi 1948-
American Museum of Natural History
Still-life photography Exhibitions.
Diorama Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Photographers Japan.
Photographie de nature morte Expositions.
Dioramas Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Photographes Japon.
Diorama.
Photographers.
Still-life photography.
Inszenierte Fotografie
Natur
Künstlichkeit
Dioraman.
Naturfotografi.
Japan.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Exhibition, pictorial works.

Added entries:

Matsumoto, Takaaki.
Matsumoto, Takaaki book designer.
Wilkins, Amy editor.
Murray, Giles translator.
Pace Gallery.
Pace Gallery host institution.

Dioramas

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287538
Call No.: BIB 228666
Status: Available