Sea of Japan, Hokkaido I

©1988, Hiroshi Sugimoto

Sea of Japan, Hokkaido I

Currently not on view

Sea of Japan, Hokkaido I,

1988

Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司, born 1948, Tokyo, Japan; active Tokyo and New York, NY
x1988-121
Theater stages and seascapes are the subjects of two of Sugimoto’s most iconic series, each of which balances a tightly focused picture with a composition bordering on geometric abstraction. Sugimoto made these series using a large-format camera that captures details in high resolution, yet he also created each exposure over a period of hours— during the full run of the movie or a voyage out to sea. Each photograph thus records the movement of light over time, merging all the details of that period. By eliminating the expected dramatic subject of the scene, Sugimoto’s pictures open the narrative possibilities to the viewer’s imagination.

Information

Title
Sea of Japan, Hokkaido I
Dates

1988

Maker
Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 41.8 × 54.3 cm (16 7/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
frame: 65.5 × 83.4 × 3.8 cm (25 13/16 × 32 13/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, gift of Robert Gambee, Class of 1964, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Object Number
x1988-121
Place Depicted

Asia, Japan, Sea of Japan from Hokkaido

Culture
Japanese
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
fog, seas

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