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Bust of Venus, November 26, 1840
Creator
Hiroshi SugimotoJapanese Artist · 1948–present
All works by this person →Hiroshi Sugimoto is best known for black and white photographs of particular subjects that he has explored in depth over many years: images of natural-history dioramas, wax-figure installations, sublime seascapes, and ornate movie theater interiors. Through his art he seeks to provoke fundamental questions about the relationship between photography and time, and the nature of reality. Sugimoto was
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- 2009
- Medium
- Toned gelatin silver print
- Culture
- Japanese
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
>To look at Fox Talbot's earliest experiments, the blurred and hazy images suffuse the excited anticipation of discovering how light could transfer the shape of things onto paper. ... I decided to collect Fox Talbot's earliest negatives, from a time in photographic history very likely before positive images existed, and print the photographs that not even he saw. > >--Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto visited the Getty Museum in 2007 to study the earliest photographs in the collection. After photographing some of William Henry Fox Talbot's photogenic drawing negatives, he produced large-scale prints and colored them with toning agents to replicate the hues of the paper negatives. The scale of the enlarged prints reveals the fibers of the original paper, which create delicate patterns embedded in the images.
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