Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture (Damiani) [SIGNED]

SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi

ISBN 10: 886208658X / ISBN 13: 9788862086585

Editore: Damiani and Matsumoto Editions, Bologna, Italy, 2019

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First edition, first printing. Signed in silver marker on the front free end paper by Sugimoto. Hardcover. Fine cloth-covered boards, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Creative direction and design by Takaaki Matsumoto, Matsumoto Incorporated, New York. Editorial coordination, copy editing and production management by Amy Wilkins, Matsumoto Incorporated, New York. Color separations, printing and binding by Grafiche Damiani, Italy. Printed on Phoenix Motion Xantur 170 gsm paper. 160 pp., with 90 duotone plates. 11-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. New in publisher's shrink-wrap (shrink-wrapped after signing). From the publisher: "In 1997, Hiroshi Sugimoto began a series of photographs of significant works of modernist architecture, intending "to trace the beginnings of our age via architecture." One of the hallmarks of Sugimoto's work is his technical mastery of the medium. He makes photographs exclusively with an 8 x 10" view camera, and his silver gelatin prints are renowned for their tonal range, total lack of grain, wealth of detail and overall optical precision. In making the Architecture photographs, however, he inverted his usual process: "Pushing out my old large-format camera's focal length to twice-infinity. I discovered that superlative architecture survives the onslaught of blurred photography. Thus I began erosion-testing architecture for durability, completely melting away many of the buildings in the process." The language of architectural modernism is distilled in photographs of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Bilbao. By virtue of their blurriness and lack of color, the images strip down buildings to their essence, what we might imagine was the architect's first, pure vision of form. The details of construction and imperfections that are a natural result of a massive, collaborative human undertaking, are absent, and instead light and shadow define the forms of these buildings. The Architecture photographs continue the artist's longstanding investigations of the passage of time and of history. Are these monuments to human ingenuity and the power of the industrial age as eternal as they seem? 'Architecture' contains 90 photographs, 19 of which are previously unpublished." Signed by Author. Codice articolo 113524

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Titolo: Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture (Damiani) [...

Casa editrice: Damiani and Matsumoto Editions, Bologna, Italy

Data di pubblicazione: 2019

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: New

Condizione sovraccoperta: New

autografato: Autografato dall'autore

Edizione: 1st Edition.

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Known for his long-exposure photographic series of empty movie theaters and driveins, seascapes, museum dioramas, and waxworks, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been turning his camera on international icons of twentieth-century architecture since 1997. His deliberately blurred and seemingly timeless photographs depict structures as diverse as the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Nutre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka. The resulting black-and-white photographs, shot distinctly...

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