TIME EXPOSED (SIGNED)

Hiroshi Sugimoto
TIME EXPOSED (SIGNED)

Photographs: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Publisher: Kyoto Shoin

56 (51+5) pages

Pictures: 51

Year: 1991

Comments: Portfolio of 51 loosing photographies plates and 5 sheets in an aluminium box housed in a cardboard slipcase in a rare shipping box from the printing factory with the sticker of the factory still present in the box. 35,3 x 46,5 cm, In excellent condition. One of the title page is signed by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Extremely rare with signature and shipping box.

Kyoto, Kyoto Shoin, 1991, 353 x 465 mm, 2ff (titre, faux-titre), 51 planches, 3ff (table et colophon), contenues dans boîte en aluminium avec un côté monté sur charnière, étui en carton imprimé avec sa rare boite d’expédition comprise. Portfolio signé sur une planche de titre.
Portfolio comportant 51 images dont une vue de l'IBM Courtyard à Tokyo (ou furent exposées les photos) et 50 photographies de mer par Sugimoto, publié à l'occasion de l'exposition au Carnegie Museum of Art en Pennsylvanie. Les images sont imprimées en offset en trame extrêmement fine (300) sur Mitsubishi Real Art Both Sides Paper et montées sur Peach Kent Paper, chaque feuille de montage comportant le titre, la date de prise de vue et le numéro de référence en cachet sec. Titre, table des matières, justification. Le photographe a obtenu le Prix Hasselblad en 2001.
Tirage annoncé à 500 exemplaires. L’emboîtage aluminium étant très fragile, plus de 200 exemplaires furent endommagés durant le transport.
Parr & Badger 308.

In 1980 he began working on an ongoing series of photographs of the sea and its horizon in locations all over the world, using an old-fashioned large-format camera to make exposures of varying duration. These seascapes are as much about the nature of photography as nature itself. They fall into several basic types: clear dayscapes with crisp, absolute horizons dividing bright, blank skies from dark water; foggy dayscapes where sky and sea merge atmospherically; nightscapes, in which sky, water, waves, and horizon register as so many degrees of black; and dawnscapes shot deliberately out of focus, where sunpaths spill from misty horizons, rendering the candor of photographic vision as pure impressionism.

By returning to the same subject repeatedly, he reveals the subtleties that he finds in the primordial sea, site of the origin and emergence of life as well as of eternal continuity.

Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention―and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The beginnings of life are shrouded in myth: Let there water and air. Living phenomena spontaneously generated from water and air in the presence of light, though that could just as easily suggest random coincidence as a Deity. Let’s just say that there happened to be a planet with water and air in our solar system, and moreover at precisely the right distance from the sun for the temperatures required to coax forth life. While hardly inconceivable that at least one such planet should exist in the vast reaches of universe, we search in vain for another similar example.

Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

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