HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born 1948 in Tokyo and currently lives and works in New York. Using photography, amazing invention in the 19th century, he has
pursued the possibilities of its validity as medium since 1970s: the Dioramas which brings the stuffed animals back to life by re-killing them with photography. In the Theater series, he explores the photography as a memory device, in which a luminance remains as a radiant blank in the screen
after cumulative projection of an entire film. The Seascapes investigates a "presence of water and air" as peculiar phenomenon of the planet earth, how
it effects a stratum of the ancient memory for a mankind who is conceited of
its position as the top of the evolution of life.

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