ArtBabble: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto on His "Five Elements" Series and Collecting Art

Asian Art Museum — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:32:38 +0000

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Hailed as one of the most important photographers of our time, New York-based Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is also an accomplished architect. He approaches his work from many different perspectives, with architecture as one component in designing the settings for his installations. As a photographer of the highest technical ability, with equal acclaim for the conceptual and philosophical aspects of his work, Sugimoto has created works in his "Five Elements" series that are constructed as shrines to a primordial birthplace.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist

Art21 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:35:55 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #141: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto recounts his student days studying Western philosophy (Hegel, Kant, Marx) in Tokyo, encountering Oriental philosophy (such as Zen Buddhism) in California, and his interest in the history of Modernism—all schools of thought that demonstrate "the human ability to see things in a different way."

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Cabinet of Curiosities

Art21 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:06:46 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #135: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities which includes meteorites, stone age tools, and whimsical toys.

Central to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time. Sugimoto sees with the eye of the sculptor, painter, architect, and philosopher. He creates images that seem to convey his subjects’ essence, whether architectural, sculptural, painterly, or of the natural world.