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 earth--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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Damiani
ISBN-13
9788862083270
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209043995
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas
Author
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
118 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
277mm
Item Width
250mm
Item Weight
1200 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Country/Region of Manufacture
Italy
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