Title: Sugimoto portraits
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Celebrities, Portrait photography, Portraits, Criticism and interpretation, Photograph collections, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Wax figures, Exhibitions, Photography, exhibitions, Artistic Photography, Portrait sculpture, Sugimoto, hiroshi , 1948-, Portrait photography--exhibitions, Photography, artistic, Photography, artistic--exhibitions, Portrait sculpture--exhibitions, Wax figures--exhibitions, Tr670 .s84 2000g
Places: Berlin, Germany
People: Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948-)