Hiroshi Sugimoto
Subtitle: black box
By: edited by Philip Larratt-Smith
Contributors: Larratt-Smith, Philip, editor, interviewer; Fundación Mapfre
Edition: First Aperture edition.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781597113595
Subjects: Lightning in art; Animals in art; Interviews; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Black box
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Fundación MAPFRE: Barcelona, February 19-May 8, 2016; Madrid, June 23-September 24, 2016.

"The exhibition is split into five series, dedicated to the artist's five large series and includes: Seascapes (1980- ), Portraits [wax works at Madame Tussauds] (1994-1999), Theaters (1976- ), Dioramas [from the American Museum of Natural History, New York City] (1976-2012) and Lightning Fields (2006- ). His work is characterized by an immense natural beauty and a high technical virtuosity. The photographer has managed to reinterpret some of the most characteristic genres of the classic photography tradition, rejecting digital technology in favor of traditional methods. Overall, the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto is a profound meditation on the nature of perception, illusion, representation, life and death."--Fundación MAPFRE website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196).
Table of contents: title: Death of a naturalist /  Philip Larratt-Smith; title: Where these images live /  Iran do Espírito Santo; title: Black box :  dioramas, theaters, seascapes, portraits, and lightning fields; title: Conversation between Hiroshi Sugimoto and Philip Larratt-Smith; title: Chronology; title: Bibliography; title: List of works.