Sugimoto Portraits (Guggenheim Museum Publications) [ハードカバー]

ここでの杉本博司は、初期のジオラマシリーズで探索したように、蝋人形に取り組んでいる。詩的なイマジネーションと、気品あるエレガンスを併せ持つ一連の作品は、ヘンリー8世とその6人の妻たち、オスカー・ワイルドといった歴史的人物たちの等身大モノクロポートレートだ。蝋人形館で劇的な照明を使って撮影することにより、心にまとわりつくようなイメージが作り出されている。トレーシー・バシュコフによる杉本のインタビュー記事のほか、キャロル・アームストロング、ノーマン・ブライソン、トーマス・ケレイン、ナンシー・スペクターによるエッセイを収録。ベルリンのドイツ・グッゲンハイム美術館のために制作され、旧グッゲンハイム美術館ソーホーで展示された。編集はトレーシー・バシュコフおよびナンシー・スペクター。
ノーマン・ブライソン、トーマス・ケレイン、キャロル・アームストロングによるエッセイを収録。
ハードカバー、Hardcover, 11 x 12インチ/170ページ / 0 color 0 モノクロ75点 　2色0 ~ Item D20399

新価格でお求めやすくなりました。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Sugimoto: Portraits is the definitive discussion to date of the thought-provoking contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Following a career that has focused on formal studies of museum dioramas, cinema interiors, and exquisite seascapes, Sugimoto accepted a commission from the Guggenheim to create a series of life-size black-and-white portraits of waxwork figures. His latest method of working enables him to take pictures of people who existed long before the invention of the camera: I wanted to be the first sixteenth-century photographer, he says of his carefully constructed portraits of Henry VIII and his six wives. He notes that during the 18th century, wax figures played the same role of preserving a likeness as a portrait photograph.
Seventy-five of Sugimoto's waxwork portraits are reproduced here in richly textured duotones. Context for this latest direction taken by the artist is provided by examples of his earlier work and famous portraits by Holbein, Rembrandt, and others. An extensive bibliography and chronology complete the academic contribution of this elegant book. The many-layered conceptual questions related to the archaeology of time that his works inspire are explored in several essays, but the most successful chapter is a lively interview with Sugimoto himself. He tells how he photographed a tableau based on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper that he discovered with delight in a small Japanese town; he is fascinated by the ironies of a Japanese man photographing an icon of Western art exhibited in Japan, fabricated in wax by Mexican workers using a European tradition. --John Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

Sugimoto: Portraits is the definitive discussion to date of the thought-provoking contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Following a career that has focused on formal studies of museum dioramas, cinema interiors, and exquisite seascapes, Sugimoto accepted a commission from the Guggenheim to create a series of life-size black-and-white portraits of waxwork figures. His latest method of working enables him to take pictures of people who existed long before the invention of the camera: "I wanted to be the first sixteenth-century photographer," he says of his carefully constructed portraits of Henry VIII and his six wives. He notes that during the 18th century, wax figures played the same role of preserving a likeness as a portrait photograph.

Seventy-five of Sugimoto's waxwork portraits are reproduced here in richly textured duotones. Context for this latest direction taken by the artist is provided by examples of his earlier work and famous portraits by Holbein, Rembrandt, and others. An extensive bibliography and chronology complete the academic contribution of this elegant book. The many-layered conceptual questions related to "the archaeology of time" that his works inspire are explored in several essays, but the most successful chapter is a lively interview with Sugimoto himself. He tells how he photographed a tableau based on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper that he discovered with delight in a small Japanese town; he is fascinated by the ironies of a Japanese man photographing an icon of Western art exhibited in Japan, fabricated in wax by Mexican workers using a European tradition. --John Stevenson

A Guggenheim Museum Publication

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.

This book, published to accompany an exhibition of commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin that also travels to the Guggenheim Museo Bilbao, includes texts by a team of art historians and an interview with Sugimoto, offering fresh insights into the work of this contemporary artist.

Tracey Bashkoff is assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Nancy Spector is curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

75 duotone photographs, 11 x 12"