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Born 1948 Tokyo, Japan. Known for: Black and white photographs, architecture.
"The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings," by Bianca Bosker, April 3, 2017, The New York Times Style Magazine . WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing.... Read full biography
"The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings," by Bianca Bosker, April 3, 2017, The New York Times Style Magazine . WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing. Moments before, he had been guiding me through his minimalist penthouse loft in a verdant neighborhood... Read full biography
"The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings," by Bianca Bosker, April 3, 2017, The New York Times Style Magazine . WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing. Moments before, he had been guiding me through his minimalist penthouse loft in a verdant neighborhood of Tokyo, explaining in a voice barely louder than a whisper why white Japanese shikkui plaster is the most beautiful surface on which to view shadows. Then, in a soaring tenor, he starts belting out... Read full biography
"The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings," by Bianca Bosker, April 3, 2017, The New York Times Style Magazine . WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing. Moments before, he had been guiding me through his minimalist penthouse loft in a verdant neighborhood of Tokyo, explaining in a voice barely louder than a whisper why white Japanese shikkui plaster is the most beautiful surface on which to view shadows. Then, in a soaring tenor, he starts belting out Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga,” his strong voice echoing off the bare walls. Spend any time with Sugimoto, and such scenes will grow familiar: It is all but impossible to know what he will do next. Sugimoto built his name on photography; his... Read full biography
"The Veteran Photographer Making Stunning New Buildings," by Bianca Bosker, April 3, 2017, The New York Times Style Magazine . WITHOUT WARNING, the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto begins to sing. Moments before, he had been guiding me through his minimalist penthouse loft in a verdant neighborhood of Tokyo, explaining in a voice barely louder than a whisper why white Japanese shikkui plaster is the most beautiful surface on which to view shadows. Then, in a soaring tenor, he starts belting out Handel’s “Lascia ch’io pianga,” his strong voice echoing off the bare walls. Spend any time with Sugimoto, and such scenes will grow familiar: It is all but impossible to know what he will do next. Sugimoto built his name on photography; his meditative, black-and-white images of everything from drive-in movie theaters and eerily naturalistic wax figures to Rothko-esque seascape... Read full biography
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Artist Info
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Keywords (11)
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
Art School
- •Art Center College, School of Design, Los Angeles, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Hasselblad Foundation International Award, Photography
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Added Description
- •Architectural Design, Drawing, Forms, Decoration
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Asian
Exhibition of Museum
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting