Introduction (Say what I’m going to say) What I’m going to say in this article, and why Main Body (Say it) Sugimoto’s work: Description Background (Why he did this work: the extension of Diorama series ) Technique(How he did this work?) {Read &Watch: (1)The Exactness of The World: A Conversation With Hiroshi Sugimoto;(2) From Oil to Wax to Silver: Sugimoto’s Portrait Gallery; (3)Documentary Film: Memories of Origin} Holbein’s work: Background: Holbein’s journey He started to paint portraits in England The function of portraits: To know how a person looks (like photography now) A weapon of propaganda (scale, appearance, position…) {Read…
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Notes & Quotes from two articles about Hiroshi Sugimoto(杉本博司)
[1] Art:21, (2005). Artists speak: Hiroshi Sugimoto. School Arts, (105.3), p.14. HS: “Memory, and replica. Photography is a system of saving memories. It’s a time machine, in a way…to preserve the memory, to preserve time.” HS: “…to me, photography functions as a fossilization of time.” “Central to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time.” (Photography artworks are a kind of archive as well.) / [2] Georgievska-Shine, A. (2006). Hiroshi Sugimoto. ArtUS, (13), pp.18-19. “…Sugimoto ‘s own reference to himself as a ‘pre-postmodern modernist,’…” “Sugimoto’s intense focus on…
Notes & Quotes from “The Exactness Of The World: A Conversation With Hiroshi Sugimoto(杉本博司)”
The Exactness Of The World: A Conversation With Hiroshi Sugimoto By Tracey Bashkoff (The interview took place in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s studio in New York, November- December 1999.)
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