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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 30   

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

Text by Maria Morris Hambourg.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

The eeriness of the copy: Sugimoto's portraits of wax figures

At first glance, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographic portrait of King Henry VIII of England is arresting: Sugimoto’s camera has captured the tactility of Henry’s furs and silks, the elaborate embroidery of his doublet, the light reflecting off of each shimmering jewel. The contours of the king’s face are so lifelike that he appears to be almost three-dimensional. It seems as though the 21st-century artist has traveled back in time nearly 500 years to photograph his royal subject.

But Sugimoto’s portraits of historical figures are fictions, at least twice removed from their subjects, made by photographing a wax figure that has been created by a sculptor from either a photographic portrait or a painted one. Sugimoto shoots his subjects in black and white, posing the “sitter” against a black background, amplifying the illusion that we are viewing a contemporary portrait in which the subject has stepped out of history.

This volume presents the photographer’s images of the wax figures alongside a selection of portraits of living subjects and photographs of memento mori. As with his other major bodies of work—Dioramas, Seascapes and Theaters—Sugimoto’s Portraits address the passage of time and history, and question the nature of the “reality” captured by the camera. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits is the fourth in a series of books on Sugimoto’s major bodies of work and presents 70 photographs, 7 of which have never before been published.

Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) has helped define what it means to be a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, his photographs blurring the lines between photography, painting, installation and architecture. Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.


Featured image is reproduced from 'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

The Paris Review

Spencer Bokat-Lindell

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Portraits Bring the Dead Back to Life.

PDN's Notable Photo Books of 2018

Sugimoto manages to transform these kitschy objects into conceptual art that inspires us to consider the nature of representation.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/7/2018

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

"Fidel Castro" (1999), Hiroshi Sugimoto's "portrait" of the Cuban revolutionary as sculpted in wax, is reproduced from Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits, new from Damiani and MW Editions. "For Sugimoto, photography is not just an artistic vehicle," Maria Morris Hambourg writes, "it is a philosophical instrument. From his first photographs of dioramas, the artist understood that 'photography does not exist separate from the world… but already exists as an innate perceptual tool within our mind.' Thus the end of photography for Sugimoto, if it ever actually occurs, will hardly be a full stop. His mind is so thoroughly engaged by the conceptual aspects of the medium that he will continue his investigations into the nature of history, memory, time, art, and perception. These fires of his creativity have not extinguished; rather, on the sill of his eighth decade, they are burning ever brighter, and like torches held aloft, are lighting the artist's way into surprising new domains." continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/11/2018

See video of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Darius Himes speaking at The Strand

See video of Hiroshi Sugimoto and Darius Himes speaking at The Strand

Monday May 7, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto spoke with Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie's and co-author of Publish Your Photography Book, at the Strand Bookstore in celebration of Portraits, Sugimoto's latest collection of photographs published by Damiani and MW Editions. See video of the discussion here!
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/7/2018

Hiroshi Sugimoto & Darius Himes at the Strand

Hiroshi Sugimoto & Darius Himes at the Strand

Monday May 7, from 7 - 8 PM, acclaimed photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto will appear in conversation with Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie's and co-author of Publish Your Photography Book, at the Strand Bookstore in celebration of Portraits, Sugimoto's latest collection of photographs published by Damiani and MW Editions. Signing to follow.
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: TIME MACHINE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775755320
USD $60.00
| CAN $87

Pub Date: 12/19/2023
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECTURE

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862086585
USD $60.00
| CAN $85

Pub Date: 9/17/2019
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: PORTRAITS

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862085823
USD $50.00
| CAN $67.5

Pub Date: 3/27/2018
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: SNOW WHITE

Damiani/Matsumoto Editions

ISBN: 9788862085205
USD $750.00
| CAN $995

Pub Date: 12/26/2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Long Never, Lightning Fields 289

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THE LONG NEVER, LIGHTNING FIELDS 289

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862084697
USD $11,000.00
| CAN $14300

Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Long Never, Lightning Fields 304

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THE LONG NEVER, LIGHTNING FIELDS 304

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862084604
USD $11,000.00
| CAN $14300

Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Glass Tea House Mondrian

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GLASS TEA HOUSE MONDRIAN

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863357498
USD $35.00
| CAN $47.5

Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Glass Tea House Mondrian

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GLASS TEA HOUSE MONDRIAN

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863357498
USD $35.00
| CAN $47.5

Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: CONCEPTUAL FORMS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775739214
USD $50.00
| CAN $67.5

Pub Date: 3/24/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: DIORAMAS

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862083270
USD $65.00
| CAN $87

Pub Date: 9/30/2014
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Revolution

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: REVOLUTION

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775734714
USD $60.00
| CAN $79

Pub Date: 2/28/2013
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Looking through Duchamp’s Door

LOOKING THROUGH DUCHAMP’S DOOR

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783865606051
USD $49.95
| CAN $67.5

Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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Cahiers d'Art: Hiroshi Sugimoto

CAHIERS D'ART: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Cahiers d'Art

ISBN: 9782851171795
USD $80.00
| CAN $109

Pub Date: 10/21/2014
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