| Hiroshi Sugimoto |  | Author: Eckhard Schneider
Creators: Thomas Kellein, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Publisher: Kunsthaus Bregenz
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1510565
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 11.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 388375563X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783883755632
ASIN: 388375563X
Publication Date: October 2, 2002
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Condition: First edition thus (English), first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth, with photographically illustrated vellum-like translucent dust jacket and photographically illustrated endpapers. Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays (in English) by Thomas Kellein and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Includes a biography, exhibition history, bibliography and list of exhibited works. 120 pp., with 13 four-color, 5 duotone and 27 tritone plates, and additional color and black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed on heavy fine matt art paper by PrintNetwork, Lage. 12 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches. Out of print. Scarce. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. Published on the occasion of the 2001 exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto, Architecture of Time, curated by Rudolf Sagmeister, at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (also traveled to numerous venues). From the publisher: "Hiroshi Sugimoto's images make us blink. Whether he is condensing the light of a feature length movie into a sol
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Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by Thomas Kellein and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
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 Large scale photographer's work shown in a tiny format January 7, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I first saw this book at the de Young Museum in San Francisco during a major exhibition of Sugimoto's work there during the summer of 2007. I love photography and have been building up a library of photo books for years. Sugimoto is one of my favorite artists and I was really looking forward to having a book of his work (there are so few that have been published that are available).
I think the book is a really good survey of Sugimoto, but I have to say that I was extremely perplexed and disappointed by the decision of the publisher and the artist to publish the work in such a small format. If you've ever seen any of Sugimoto's prints, they are on the order of 4 feet by 5 feet and larger. Their size is important to the presence of the work and highlights the incredible detail that can be captured by a committed artist using very large format cameras. The prints reproduced in the book are just too small to be able to capture any of this impact.
This really drops the rating for me. if it had been twice or three times the dimensions as published it would have just been big enough.
 Sugimoto's Photography July 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you have never seen Sugimoto's work and you have an interest in conceptual art and photography, you are in for a treat. As he says, his work is all about time and what better way to show time than through a photograph. Beautifully produced, this book hints at the depth of the original large format images that can now be seen at a retrospective at San Francisco's de Young museum.
The book begins with his portraits in a wax museum and dioramas from New York's Museum of Natural History. All of his photographs are made with large format camera and the detail is exquisite. Conceptually, the camera gazes upon reproduction figures that are perhaps better than life itself, arranged like sculpture. The meaning of these objects (and places) becomes a recurring theme in his work that ultimately questions the medium itself. Real fiction.
The highlight of the book in my estimation are the minimalist sea landscapes that capture light and question time -- they are devoid of a decisive moment. These images are absolutely spellbinding in person and, for a book, the reproduction is very good.
The weakest part are photographs made by Sugimoto of blurred buildings, which take on a toy like scale, again questioning the reality of the original object. The selection of which building is clearly important, but the execution just isn't as exciting or masterful as the other work in this book. This is a very difficult area and very few photographers have pulled it off (try David Armstrong: All Day Every Day also available at Amazon)
Conceptually, the mathematical models, created in the late 1800's and early 1900's are fascinating. The ultra-resolution of the view camera shows the human hand in creation, where slight imperfections cast shadows of scratches made by the makers, as well as students and teachers. The poetry of pure math meets visual realism.
The finale are the photographs of movie theaters, each image exposed for the duration of the movie. The screen is a brilliant white (hinting at the experience of light from a movie), pouring out into the architecture of the theater or the surroundings of the drive-in landscaping. One of my favorites, from Union City, California, shows traces of light in the sky from passing aircraft -- a Zen-like experience of the passing of time that hints at an ancient haiku about the traces left by geese on snow.
Beautiful, thought-provoking and utterly magical January 8, 2006
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
I recently discovered Sugimoto's pictures browsing the web. This book is beautifully produced and plate after plate demands not only an aesthetic response from the viewer but also a decidedly intellectual and conceptual one (maybe that's the same thing!). It's rare to find art that is simultaneously so beautiful and so profound.
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