Hiroshi Sugimoto
In Praise of Shadows, 2000
2256
**Framed set of this portfolio of 7 lithographs/ 3 Plates / 4 colors. For each photograph, a candle was placed in a dark, draughty room, and a single exposure was taken over several hours as the wick burned from top to base, reducing the candle to nothing. The title is taken from Junichiro Tanikazi's 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics, "In Praise of Shadows". This essay has become something of a manifesto for generations of Japanese artists. Tanizaki says that the Japanese "find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates."
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sea of Buddha, 1997
1720
48 black and white photographs, title pages and impressum folded into a Leporello (accordion style) and attached to 2 polished aluminium cover plates, contained in a silk-covered slipcase. Design by Takaaki Matsumoto.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sanjusangendo (Hall of Thirty Three Bays) # 30, 31 & 32, 1994
1735
16 7/10 x 21 1/2 in. (42.4 x 54.6 cm)
3 gelatin silver prints, a single image of 1001 statues at the Sanjusangendo (a temple in Kyoto). Sea of Buddha is a result of Sugimoto's desire to show the statues as they were meant to be seen during the Heian Period (794-1185). After seven years of bureaucratic red tape, Sugimoto was finally granted permission to enter the temple of Sanjusangend and the Hall of Thirty-Three Bays and photograph the Armed Merciful Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara figures, which have survived eight hundred years.
Copy n. 9 of 25.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Sanjusangendo (Hall of Thirty Three Bays), # 33, 1994
1815
16 7/10 x 21 1/5 in. (42.4 x 53.9 cm)
Gelatin Silver Print, a single image of 1001 statues at the Sanjusangendo (a temple in Kyoto). Sea of Buddha, is a result of Sugimoto's desire to show the statues as they were meant to be seen during the Heian Perod (794-1185). After seven years of red tape, Sugimoto was finally granted permission to enter the temple of Sanjusangendo, "Hall of Thirty-Three Bays" and photograph the Armed Merciful Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara figures, which have been passed down eight-hundred years.
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