Hiroshi Sugimoto

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
De Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, California

Hiroshi Sugimoto
July 7, 2007 — September 23, 2007

"The extraordinary 30-year career of Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948) is celebrated in this retrospective of more than 100 luminous photographs, made from 1976 to the present. This presentation, in an installation designed by Sugimoto, constitutes the first major survey of Sugimoto’s oeuvre.

One of Japan’s most important contemporary artists, Sugimoto is known for his ongoing multiple series of hauntingly beautiful black-and-white photographs exploring the themes of time, memory, dreams, and natural histories. Working with a large-format camera, he produces glowing images, ranging from the richly detailed to the starkly minimal, which are often suffused with expanses of light and space."

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[Image from FAMSF Web site. Caption: Hiroshi Sugimoto, "Union City Drive-In, Union City," 1993. Gelatin silver print. Edition 21/25. Private collection. Courtesy of the artist]