Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948. Central to Sugimoto’s work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time. This theme provides the defining principle of his ongoing series of photographs. Sugimoto sees with the eye of the sculptor, painter, architect, and philosopher. He uses his camera in a myriad of ways to create images that seem to convey his subjects’ essence, whether architectural, sculptural, painterly, or of the natural world. Hiroshi Sugimoto lives and works in New York City and Tokyo.