Hiroshi Sugimoto

Olivier Renaud-Clément, New York

Acquired from the above in 2010 by the present owner

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sugimoto, November 1995 - January 1996 (another example exhibited)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Photographs from the Collection XIV, May - September 2007 (another example exhibited)

Contemporary Japanese Art in America (1): Arita, Nakagawa, Sugimoto, New York: Japan Society 1987, no. 7, pp. 72-73, illustrated

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sugimoto, New York: Sonnabend Gallery and Tokyo: Sagacho Exhibit Space and Seito Photo Salon 1988, unpaginated, illustrated

Sugimoto, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum and Tokyo: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996, p. 41, illustrated

Hirsohi Sugimoto, Seascapes, Bologna 2016, p. 20, illustrated

“I became interested in seascapes because they relate to memories from infancy; the very earliest thing I can picture is the sea. A sharp horizon line and a cloudless sky—here began my consciousness. From there my thoughts race to the origins of human consciousness. The sea reminds me that within my blood remain traces of human evolution over hundreds of thousands of years. Humans outstripped other species intellectually, developed civilization, art, religion and science, spinning out the strands of history. It seems to me that seascapes have the latent power to reawaken an awareness of the origins of consciousness in this present day.”–Hiroshi Sugimoto