Sugimoto portraits
By: [text by] Bashkoff [and] Spector.
Contributors: Bashkoff, Tracey R.; Spector, Nancy.; Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum; distributed by H.N. Abrams
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Sugimoto, Hiroshi, -- 1948- -- Exhibitions; Sugimoto, Hiroshi, -- 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation; Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions; Celebrities -- Portraits -- Exhibitions; Wax figures -- Portraits -- Exhibitions; Portrait photography -- Exhibitions; Photograph collections -- Germany -- Berlin -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.; Portraits
Description: "Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary. His new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures - Henry VIII and each of his wives, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and Emperor Hirohito, among others - photographed in wax museums, isolated against black backgrounds, and dramatically lit so as to create haunting Rembrandtesque images.

The series, which also includes a 25-foot, five-panel photograph of a wax effigy of Leonardo's Last Supper, emulates the grand tradition of portraiture and recalls the wax figures' sources in famous paintings by Holbein, David, Van Dyck, and Vermeer."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sugimoto portraits organized by Tracey Bashkoff and Nancy Spector, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, March 5-May 14, 2000, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, June 6-September 10, 2000"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography: p. 164-166.
Table of contents: title: Reinventing realism / Nancy Spector; title: The exactness of the world : a conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto / Tracey Bashkoff; title: From oil to wax to silver : Sugimoto's portrait gallery / Carol Armstrong; title: Everything we look at is a kind of Troy / Norman Bryson; title: Death in the lotus position, or East Asian portraiture / Thomas Kellein.