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Damiani/MW Editions

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Clth, 10 x 11 in. / 280 pgs / 225 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 20   

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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

Text by Munesuke Mita.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

The repetition and variation of water: an expanded edition of Sugimoto’s classic series

This edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's (born 1948) popular photography series is expanded and updated from the out-of-print first edition, including five previously unpublished photographs. For more than 30 years, Sugimoto has traveled the world photographing its seas, producing an extended meditation on the passage of time and the natural history of the earth reduced to its most basic, primordial substances: water and air. Always capturing the sea at a moment of absolute tranquility, Sugimoto has composed all the photographs identically, with the horizon line precisely bifurcating each image. The repetition of this strict format reveals the uniqueness of each meeting of sea and sky, with the horizon never appearing exactly the same way twice. The photographs are romantic yet absolutely rigorous, apparently universal but exceedingly specific. In the introduction Munesuke Mita writes, "It is clear that Sugimoto's Seascapes possess a vitality that stands in contrast to Rothko's last paintings, which took the reductionist passion of modernism—the desire to erase everything—to its extreme."

Hiroshi Sugimoto has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and his work is held in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian, Washington, DC; and Tate, London, among others. Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.


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

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/27/2019

A new, expanded edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's classic 'Seascapes'

A new, expanded edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's classic 'Seascapes'

Featured image, "Bay of Sagami, Kaikoh" (2011, neg. #529), is reproduced from Damiani and MW Editions' new, expanded edition of the artist's classic and beloved series of deadpan black-and-white photographs of the world's oceans, seas, bays, lakes and straits. "In ancient Indian philosophy there is the concept of leela, which posits that human life is nothing more than a meaningless game played by the gods," Japanese sociologist Munesuke Mita writes in his catalog essay. "Sugimoto struck me as someone who loved the leela side of life. I believe that his reductionist passion was qualitatively different from the other aspiring contemporary avant-garde artists in New York at that time. His imagination is closer to that of people in primitive civilizations, people who can look at the stars randomly dotting the heavens and tell themselves, 'That's a horse,' 'There's a horseman,' 'That's a musical instrument,' 'Those are the gods.'" continue to blog


HIROSHI SUGIMOTO MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: TIME MACHINE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775755320
USD $60.00
| CAD $87

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

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECTURE

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862086585
USD $60.00
| CAD $85

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

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: PORTRAITS

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862085823
USD $50.00
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $67.5

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

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: DIORAMAS

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862083270
USD $65.00
| CAD $87

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

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: REVOLUTION

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775734714
USD $60.00
| CAD $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
| CAD $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
| CAD $109

Pub Date: 10/21/2014
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