Seascapes

For more than thirty years, Hiroshi Sugimoto has produced series of highly refined black and white photographs. His subjects, which include movie theaters and drive-ins, natural history dioramas, waxworks, and seascapes, provoke fundamental questions about the relationship of photography and time while exploring the mysterious and ineffable nature of reality.

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948. In 1970 he moved to Los Angeles and studied photography at the Art Center College of Design. Sugimoto lives and works in New York City and Tokyo.

  1. Mark Gajewski
    12.01.12 15:36

    Subtle, minimal, and beautiful – they are all that great minimalism is about to my mind.

  2. Beek
    12.01.12 18:23

    Agree with mark. Great work.

  3. Simon
    12.01.12 21:04

    I agree also. Beautiful.

  4. Gian
    12.01.12 22:26

    First picture is superb.

  5. Francesco
    13.01.12 17:20

    Beautiful, very minimal, relaxing for mind.

  6. Luca
    13.01.12 21:21

    A really beautiful project.

  7. Carl MH Barenbrug
    14.01.12 01:19

    Very calming. Beautiful.

  8. Derek
    15.01.12 23:14

    The only thing better than these pictures is actually being there.

  9. trash
    24.01.12 01:13

    Incidentally – I think that Sugimoto’s work was used as the cover artwork on U2s album “No Line on the Horizon”. If it wasn’t his work then it was someone remarkably similar…