n fine art Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's official website is incredibly cut and dry. He only provides what he feels is significant enough for people to know. For example:1948: Born in Tokyo, Japan
1970: Graduated from Saint Paul’s University, Tokyo
1972: Graduated from Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles
1974: Moved to New York
Sugimoto is known for his long exposure gelatin silver prints that he produces using an 8x10 large format camera. Because of this, he is also known for his extreme technical ability as a photographer. Sugimoto has used the phrase "time exposed" to explain his work "as serving as a time capsule for a series of events in time." He's famous for several distinct bodies of work that he's produced over the last thirty-three years, the first being his Dioramas series in 1976; a series of photographs taken of natural history museum dioramas. Later in 1978 he begun his Theaters series in which he photographed movie theaters and relied only on the light emanating from the movie screen as his main source of light, thereby making each in the series a long exposure photograph. In 1980 he began his next series titled Seascapes, another series of long exposure photographs that show a perfect horizon line of different seas throughout the world. The band U2 recently used his photograph Boden Sea as the cover for their most recent album released in March 2009, titled No Line on the Horizon.
In an interview with PBS's Art21, Sugimoto discusses Marcel Duchamp's influence on his work.
Sugimoto has had his work shown at the Gagosian Gallery, amongst other world renowned galleries and museums.
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