here is your new artist challenge
Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer, I picked him at random from a top 200 artists of the twentieth century list :)
Funnily enough he dislikes digital and does all his work in large format analog but we will be improvising here.
His style is very conceptual, and minimalistic, he never includes a human element in his work, he uses very long exposures a lot of the time. Some of his subject matter is seascapes featuring a central horizon to investigate the elements of air and water, architecture which he photographs out of focus to give the feeling of the building in the mind of the architect. Movie theatres, machinery, mathematical models, fossils, dioramas and wax portraits and lightning also feature.
Please view the following couple of youtubes to begin to get aquainted with his work. there are many more available on youtube if you are wanting more
if anyone finds a good online resource link please share it below.
Your challenge is to either reproduce one of his works as closely as possible, or be inspired by his concepts or subject matter. It is interesting if you reference a particular work to put the link to it in your comments.
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@kali66 thanks Kali, going through the effort of adding links and giving lots of information. Just watched the first video, very interesting. Wish I could try it the old fashioned way (analog).
@kali66 please tag me! this is a great choice...don't know if I can do it justice but I will give it a try. His work was so varied in subject! It fascinates me that he photographed Lake Superior since I am from Michigan!
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@vignouse take a look at his mechanical stuff
I am a little confused by the YouTube links - are these both to the same video?
my first try at the artist challenge. referencing Sugimoto's seascape series.
probably farther away on this one...